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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... South Sea year , and after his death : Others only in Epitaphs . what was done Him in his Friends : The favours ... South Sea stock that had gathered around him at the time of his sudden death , Craggs was pro- claimed as ' in Honour ...
... South Sea year , and after his death : Others only in Epitaphs . what was done Him in his Friends : The favours ... South Sea stock that had gathered around him at the time of his sudden death , Craggs was pro- claimed as ' in Honour ...
Page 207
... South Sea stock . He finally drowned himself ( Kippis & Towers 1778-95 : II , ' Budgell ' ) . His writing is mocked as ludicrous and indefatigable in Imitations of Horace ( Satires II.i.27-8 , 100 ) . " Thrice Budgel aim'd to speak ...
... South Sea stock . He finally drowned himself ( Kippis & Towers 1778-95 : II , ' Budgell ' ) . His writing is mocked as ludicrous and indefatigable in Imitations of Horace ( Satires II.i.27-8 , 100 ) . " Thrice Budgel aim'd to speak ...
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... South Sea scheme is no better than making it at cards ( although before the collapse of the price of stock and the exposure of dishonest directors , Pope and other Scriblerians had themselves been keen investors : see Erskine - Hill ...
... South Sea scheme is no better than making it at cards ( although before the collapse of the price of stock and the exposure of dishonest directors , Pope and other Scriblerians had themselves been keen investors : see Erskine - Hill ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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