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Page 12
... DUNCIAD ! let the fècret pafs , That fecret to each fool , that he's an Afs : 80 The truth once told ( and wherefore fhould we lie ? ) The Queen of Midas flept , and fo may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule , No creature ...
... DUNCIAD ! let the fècret pafs , That fecret to each fool , that he's an Afs : 80 The truth once told ( and wherefore fhould we lie ? ) The Queen of Midas flept , and fo may I. You think this cruel ? take it for a rule , No creature ...
Page 29
... Dunciad , to mean a pamphlet containing Mr. Wycherley's Life . Now it happens , that in July 1715 , the Earl of Warwick ( who died at the age of twenty - three , in Auguft 1721 ) was only a boy of feventeen , and not likely to be ...
... Dunciad , to mean a pamphlet containing Mr. Wycherley's Life . Now it happens , that in July 1715 , the Earl of Warwick ( who died at the age of twenty - three , in Auguft 1721 ) was only a boy of feventeen , and not likely to be ...
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... Dunciad . the occafion of writing it was fuch as he would not make public out of regard to his memory : and all that could further be done was to omit the name , in the Edition of his Works . P. Or fmoaking forth , a hundred hawkers ...
... Dunciad . the occafion of writing it was fuch as he would not make public out of regard to his memory : and all that could further be done was to omit the name , in the Edition of his Works . P. Or fmoaking forth , a hundred hawkers ...
Page 37
... Dunciad , intimating , that " it was by a different hand from the other , and found in detached pieces , incorre & and unfinished , " I obje & ed to bim the affectation of using so unpromifing an attempt to milead his Reader . He ...
... Dunciad , intimating , that " it was by a different hand from the other , and found in detached pieces , incorre & and unfinished , " I obje & ed to bim the affectation of using so unpromifing an attempt to milead his Reader . He ...
Page 44
... Dunciad published that poem , till when , he never writ a word in aufwer to the many fcurrilities and falfehoods concern- ing him . P. VER . 375. Welfled's lie , ] This man had the impudence to tell in print , that Mr. P. had occafioned ...
... Dunciad published that poem , till when , he never writ a word in aufwer to the many fcurrilities and falfehoods concern- ing him . P. VER . 375. Welfled's lie , ] This man had the impudence to tell in print , that Mr. P. had occafioned ...
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