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 185
... church hierarchy was a constant irritant to the establish- ment , particularly in view of the attack on church and king underpinned by such views during the Civil War . For a fuller denunciation , accusing sectarian preachers of using ...
... church hierarchy was a constant irritant to the establish- ment , particularly in view of the attack on church and king underpinned by such views during the Civil War . For a fuller denunciation , accusing sectarian preachers of using ...
Page 189
... church of England ; for the visible descent of an Angel must be a miracle . Now it is the doctrine of the Church of England that miracles had ceased a long time before Prince Arthur came into the world . Now if the doctrine of the ...
... church of England ; for the visible descent of an Angel must be a miracle . Now it is the doctrine of the Church of England that miracles had ceased a long time before Prince Arthur came into the world . Now if the doctrine of the ...
Page 308
... Church ; till the debauch'd reign of Charles the second , when the shameful Passion for Wit overthrew every thing : and even then the best Writers admitted it , provided it was obscene , under the name of the Double entendre . SCRIBL ...
... Church ; till the debauch'd reign of Charles the second , when the shameful Passion for Wit overthrew every thing : and even then the best Writers admitted it , provided it was obscene , under the name of the Double entendre . SCRIBL ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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