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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... Aeneas's dream in which the dead Hector warns him that fur- ther effort is useless : ' If Troy could have been saved by any hand , it would have been saved by this one ' ( Aeneid II.291–2 ) . Aeneas , however , protected by his goddess ...
... Aeneas's dream in which the dead Hector warns him that fur- ther effort is useless : ' If Troy could have been saved by any hand , it would have been saved by this one ' ( Aeneid II.291–2 ) . Aeneas , however , protected by his goddess ...
Page 166
... Aeneas , best of fathers , smiled at him ' ( Aeneid V.358 , 350–51 ) . Aeneas had previously spoken to Salius ( ' me liceat ' , etc. ) , whom Nisus had deliberately tripped up : " " I hope it is all right for me to pity my unfortunate ...
... Aeneas , best of fathers , smiled at him ' ( Aeneid V.358 , 350–51 ) . Aeneas had previously spoken to Salius ( ' me liceat ' , etc. ) , whom Nisus had deliberately tripped up : " " I hope it is all right for me to pity my unfortunate ...
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... Aeneas in valle reducta / Seclusum nemus / Lethaeumque domos placidas qui praenatat amnem ' , etc. ' Hunc circum ... Aeneas ... : ' Aeneas sees in a retired valley a secluded grove ... and the River Lethe which flows past the quiet ...
... Aeneas in valle reducta / Seclusum nemus / Lethaeumque domos placidas qui praenatat amnem ' , etc. ' Hunc circum ... Aeneas ... : ' Aeneas sees in a retired valley a secluded grove ... and the River Lethe which flows past the quiet ...
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The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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