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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... DRYDEN and Mr. POPE . As drawn by certain of their Contemporaries . Mr. DRYDEN . His POLITICS , RELIGION , MORALS . Mr. R. Dryden is a mere renegado from monarchy , poetry , and good sense . A true republican son of monarchical Church ...
... DRYDEN and Mr. POPE . As drawn by certain of their Contemporaries . Mr. DRYDEN . His POLITICS , RELIGION , MORALS . Mr. R. Dryden is a mere renegado from monarchy , poetry , and good sense . A true republican son of monarchical Church ...
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... Dryden's genius did not appear in any thing more than his Versification , and whether he is to be ennobled for that only , is a question ' . Mr. DRYDEN'S VIRGIL . Tonson calls it Dryden's Virgil , to shew that this is not that Virgil so ...
... Dryden's genius did not appear in any thing more than his Versification , and whether he is to be ennobled for that only , is a question ' . Mr. DRYDEN'S VIRGIL . Tonson calls it Dryden's Virgil , to shew that this is not that Virgil so ...
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... Dryden's own Courage . A KNAVE . ] Mr. Dryden has heard of Paul , the Knave of Jesus Christ : And if I mis- take not , I've read somewhere of John Dryden , Servant to his Majestyd . A FOOL . ] Had he not been such a self - conceited ...
... Dryden's own Courage . A KNAVE . ] Mr. Dryden has heard of Paul , the Knave of Jesus Christ : And if I mis- take not , I've read somewhere of John Dryden , Servant to his Majestyd . A FOOL . ] Had he not been such a self - conceited ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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