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 51
... Addison ; insomuch that he employed a younger muse , in an undertaking of this kind , which he supervised himself . ' Whether Mr. Addison did find it conformable to his taste , or not , best appears from his own testimony the year ...
... Addison ; insomuch that he employed a younger muse , in an undertaking of this kind , which he supervised himself . ' Whether Mr. Addison did find it conformable to his taste , or not , best appears from his own testimony the year ...
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... Addison's decease , did see and approve of the said verses , in no wise a libel , but a friendly rebuke sent privately in our author's own hand to Mr. Addison himself , and never made public , ' till after their own Journals , and Curl ...
... Addison's decease , did see and approve of the said verses , in no wise a libel , but a friendly rebuke sent privately in our author's own hand to Mr. Addison himself , and never made public , ' till after their own Journals , and Curl ...
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... Addison in his prose Essay on Criticism , whom also in his imitation of Bouhours ( called the Arts of Logic and Rhetoric ) he misrepresents in plain matter of fact ; for in p . 45. he cites the Spectator as abusing Dr. Swift by name ...
... Addison in his prose Essay on Criticism , whom also in his imitation of Bouhours ( called the Arts of Logic and Rhetoric ) he misrepresents in plain matter of fact ; for in p . 45. he cites the Spectator as abusing Dr. Swift by name ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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