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 69
... kind , of any degree of excellence , save he himself . But as this is not our own sentiment , we shall determine on nothing ; but leave thee , gentle reader , to steer thy judgment equally between various opinions , and to chuse whether ...
... kind , of any degree of excellence , save he himself . But as this is not our own sentiment , we shall determine on nothing ; but leave thee , gentle reader , to steer thy judgment equally between various opinions , and to chuse whether ...
Page 165
... kind of satyr . The Dispensary attacked the whole body of Apothecaries , a much more useful one undoubtedly than that of the bad Poets ; if in truth this can be a body , of which no two members ever agreed . It also did what Mr ...
... kind of satyr . The Dispensary attacked the whole body of Apothecaries , a much more useful one undoubtedly than that of the bad Poets ; if in truth this can be a body , of which no two members ever agreed . It also did what Mr ...
Page 328
... kind ; The mind , in Metaphysics at a loss , May wander in a wilderness of Moss ; The head that turns at super - lunar things , Poiz'd with a tail , may steer on Wilkins ' wings . O ! would the Sons of Men once think their Eyes 450. a ...
... kind ; The mind , in Metaphysics at a loss , May wander in a wilderness of Moss ; The head that turns at super - lunar things , Poiz'd with a tail , may steer on Wilkins ' wings . O ! would the Sons of Men once think their Eyes 450. a ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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