The Dunciad, Volume 5, Part 2Methuen, 1963 - 491 pages |
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... prose . The same tactics were employed with the other dunces ; and for some of those the notes had the additional advantage of giving the reader some much - needed information . More generally , the notes were intended to justify the ...
... prose . The same tactics were employed with the other dunces ; and for some of those the notes had the additional advantage of giving the reader some much - needed information . More generally , the notes were intended to justify the ...
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... prose , that have been written by the “ moderns on this ground - work , they do but hackney the same " thoughts over again , making them still more trite . Most of their " pieces are nothing but a pert , insipid heap of common place ...
... prose , that have been written by the “ moderns on this ground - work , they do but hackney the same " thoughts over again , making them still more trite . Most of their " pieces are nothing but a pert , insipid heap of common place ...
Page 437
... prose reply to Dennis ( Sherburn , p . 93 ; Pope's Prose , pp . xi ff . ) . More effective was The Narrative of Dr. Robert Norris ( 1713 ) , which appeared soon after Dennis had belaboured Addison's Cato . Dennis , determined to see ...
... prose reply to Dennis ( Sherburn , p . 93 ; Pope's Prose , pp . xi ff . ) . More effective was The Narrative of Dr. Robert Norris ( 1713 ) , which appeared soon after Dennis had belaboured Addison's Cato . Dennis , determined to see ...
Contents
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xlix |
The Dunciad Variorum with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus I | 1 |
A Letter to the Publisher II | 11 |
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