The Dunciad: In Four BooksThis is a new edition of The Dunciad in Four Books of 1743, the culmination of the series of Dunciads which Alexander Pope produced over the last decade and a half of his life. It comprises not only a poem, but also a mass of authorial annotation and appendices, and this new edition is the only one available which gives all the verse and the prose in a clearly laid-out form, with a full modern commentary. |
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Page 81
... Reason but Risibility : Whereas reason was traditionally held to set man above the animals , Cibber defines man by the faculty of laughter . os sublime : Human beings were traditionally distinguished from animals by the upright carriage ...
... Reason but Risibility : Whereas reason was traditionally held to set man above the animals , Cibber defines man by the faculty of laughter . os sublime : Human beings were traditionally distinguished from animals by the upright carriage ...
Page 100
... Reason ; who , though she cannot regulate them like Reason , yet blunts and deadens their Vigour , and , indeed , produces some of the good effects of it : Hence it is that Dulness has often the appearance of Reason . This is the only ...
... Reason ; who , though she cannot regulate them like Reason , yet blunts and deadens their Vigour , and , indeed , produces some of the good effects of it : Hence it is that Dulness has often the appearance of Reason . This is the only ...
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... reasons for this Fury , they are so strong and so coercive : ' I regard him ( saith he ) as an Enemy , not so much to ... reason has suggested to me , that I have with a just confidence said , in defiance of his two clandestine weapons ...
... reasons for this Fury , they are so strong and so coercive : ' I regard him ( saith he ) as an Enemy , not so much to ... reason has suggested to me , that I have with a just confidence said , in defiance of his two clandestine weapons ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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