The Dunciad: With Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus. Written in the Year, 1727Lawton Gilliver, 1735 - 263 pages |
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... also it fhou'd feem , that the He- ro or chief perfonage of it was no lefs obfcure , and his understanding and fentiments no lefs quaint and ftrange ( if indeed not more fo ) than any of the actors in our poem . MARGITES was the name of ...
... also it fhou'd feem , that the He- ro or chief perfonage of it was no lefs obfcure , and his understanding and fentiments no lefs quaint and ftrange ( if indeed not more fo ) than any of the actors in our poem . MARGITES was the name of ...
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... also arrive at a more certain judgment , by a grave and circumfpect comparison of the Wit- neffes with each other , or of each with himself . Hence alfo thou wilt be enabled to draw reflections , not only of a critical , but a moral ...
... also arrive at a more certain judgment , by a grave and circumfpect comparison of the Wit- neffes with each other , or of each with himself . Hence alfo thou wilt be enabled to draw reflections , not only of a critical , but a moral ...
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... also to be ; declaring in Mift's Journal of June 22 , 1718 : " That if he is not fhrewdly abus'd , he made it his practice to cackle to both parties in D 2 " their J " their own fentiments . " But , as TESTIMONIES of AUTHORS . 51.
... also to be ; declaring in Mift's Journal of June 22 , 1718 : " That if he is not fhrewdly abus'd , he made it his practice to cackle to both parties in D 2 " their J " their own fentiments . " But , as TESTIMONIES of AUTHORS . 51.
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... also in taxing Sir Richard Blackmore for his hete- rodox opinions of Homer , challengeth him to answer what Mr. Pope hath faid in his preface to that poet . M. OLD MIX ON calls him a great Mafter of our tongue , declares " the Purity ...
... also in taxing Sir Richard Blackmore for his hete- rodox opinions of Homer , challengeth him to answer what Mr. Pope hath faid in his preface to that poet . M. OLD MIX ON calls him a great Mafter of our tongue , declares " the Purity ...
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... also ap- that he writ Plays more to get Reputation than Money . " DENNIS of himself . See Giles Ja- cob's Lives of Dram . Poets , gage 68 , 69. compared with page 286 . 66 pears , 66 He roll'd his eyes that witnefs'd huge difmay , 115 ...
... also ap- that he writ Plays more to get Reputation than Money . " DENNIS of himself . See Giles Ja- cob's Lives of Dram . Poets , gage 68 , 69. compared with page 286 . 66 pears , 66 He roll'd his eyes that witnefs'd huge difmay , 115 ...
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Page 220 - See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die, Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
Page 37 - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Page 98 - For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silkworm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.
Page 228 - ... poets were ranged in classes, to which were prefixed almost all the letters of the alphabet (the greatest part of them at random) ; but such...
Page 203 - And ten-horn'd fiends and giants rush to war. Hell rises, Heaven descends, and dance on earth : Gods, imps, and monsters, music, rage, and mirth, A fire, a jig, a battle, and a ball, Till one wide conflagration swallows all.
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