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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... Curll chase a phantom poet : Curll falls , sends a petition to Jupiter by way of the divine privy tended by Cloacina , and is inspired to get up and overtake his rival ; but as he lays hold on the phantom it vanishes ; and Dulness ...
... Curll chase a phantom poet : Curll falls , sends a petition to Jupiter by way of the divine privy tended by Cloacina , and is inspired to get up and overtake his rival ; but as he lays hold on the phantom it vanishes ; and Dulness ...
Page 155
... Curll in a tavern ( ' the single time that ever he spoke to C ' ) and taking the opportunity to slip an emetic into his drink . He then wrote up the consequences in the anonymous A Full and True Account . In revenge , Curll published ...
... Curll in a tavern ( ' the single time that ever he spoke to C ' ) and taking the opportunity to slip an emetic into his drink . He then wrote up the consequences in the anonymous A Full and True Account . In revenge , Curll published ...
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... Curll and his writers get to the practice of religion . 81-2 and 82n . Curll is saying that if Jupiter finds more devotion in Lintot and his employees , then Lintot deserves to win the prize . Even in 1729 Curll had pointed out that he ...
... Curll and his writers get to the practice of religion . 81-2 and 82n . Curll is saying that if Jupiter finds more devotion in Lintot and his employees , then Lintot deserves to win the prize . Even in 1729 Curll had pointed out that he ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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