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Page 118
... Theobald , who has all the leaden weight of the ponderous Bentley behind him , The Dunciad is far more than a personal confrontation . It is an attack on all professional writing , on making a living by means of the pen . The satire ...
... Theobald , who has all the leaden weight of the ponderous Bentley behind him , The Dunciad is far more than a personal confrontation . It is an attack on all professional writing , on making a living by means of the pen . The satire ...
Page 131
... Theobald was clearly a superior scholar to Pope and was able to show that Pope did not systematically examine or ... Theobald's preface addresses Pope more in sorrow than in anger , a tone of reproach that adds up to calling the edition ...
... Theobald was clearly a superior scholar to Pope and was able to show that Pope did not systematically examine or ... Theobald's preface addresses Pope more in sorrow than in anger , a tone of reproach that adds up to calling the edition ...
Page 146
... Theobald , and why with Cibber ? By the late 1730s , Theobald's edition of Shakespeare was so obviously major that it would have been absurd to remind a new generation of Dunciad readers of Pope's own pretentions in that area ...
... Theobald , and why with Cibber ? By the late 1730s , Theobald's edition of Shakespeare was so obviously major that it would have been absurd to remind a new generation of Dunciad readers of Pope's own pretentions in that area ...
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