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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... Walpole ( 1676-1745 ; Earl of Orford from 1742 ) . Walpole , who has often been seen as , in effect , the first Prime Minister the first to attain a degree of power over sovereign and colleagues which , though now familiar , was then a ...
... Walpole ( 1676-1745 ; Earl of Orford from 1742 ) . Walpole , who has often been seen as , in effect , the first Prime Minister the first to attain a degree of power over sovereign and colleagues which , though now familiar , was then a ...
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... Walpole to King George II . Now the author directly tells us , his Hero is the Man ' who brings / The Smithfield ... Walpole : Chief Minister of George I and George II and key figure in opposition claims of government corruption ...
... Walpole to King George II . Now the author directly tells us , his Hero is the Man ' who brings / The Smithfield ... Walpole : Chief Minister of George I and George II and key figure in opposition claims of government corruption ...
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... Walpole's pragmatic , value - for - money attitude to the subsidy of writing ( which he viewed as direct payment for ... Walpole ( 1.29-32 ) . Thus the note both incorporates the suggestion that Walpole had suppressed his better nature ...
... Walpole's pragmatic , value - for - money attitude to the subsidy of writing ( which he viewed as direct payment for ... Walpole ( 1.29-32 ) . Thus the note both incorporates the suggestion that Walpole had suppressed his better nature ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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