The Dunciad, Variorum 1729 |
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... reader has bere a much more correct and compleat copy of the DUNCIAD , than bas bitherto appeared : I cannot answer but some mistakes may have flipt into it , but a vast number of others will be prevented , by the Names being now not ...
... reader has bere a much more correct and compleat copy of the DUNCIAD , than bas bitherto appeared : I cannot answer but some mistakes may have flipt into it , but a vast number of others will be prevented , by the Names being now not ...
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... reader muft affent to , " when he fees them explain'd with that ease and perfpicuity in " which they are delivered . As for those which are the most known " and the most receiv'd , they are placed in fo beautiful a light , and ...
... reader muft affent to , " when he fees them explain'd with that ease and perfpicuity in " which they are delivered . As for those which are the most known " and the most receiv'd , they are placed in fo beautiful a light , and ...
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... reader make what he can . · Doubtlefs moft ' Commentators wou'd hence take occafion to turn al to their author's advantage ; and from the teftimony of his very ene mies wou'd affirm , That his Capacity was boundless , as well as his ...
... reader make what he can . · Doubtlefs moft ' Commentators wou'd hence take occafion to turn al to their author's advantage ; and from the teftimony of his very ene mies wou'd affirm , That his Capacity was boundless , as well as his ...
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