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 77
... Greek Dramatic poets , his offspring ; who in the composition of their Tetralogy , or set of four pieces , were wont to make the last a Satyric Tragedy . Happily one of these ancient Dunciads ( as we may well term it ) is come down to ...
... Greek Dramatic poets , his offspring ; who in the composition of their Tetralogy , or set of four pieces , were wont to make the last a Satyric Tragedy . Happily one of these ancient Dunciads ( as we may well term it ) is come down to ...
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... Greek goddess of learning . Let our English at least escape : Theobald pioneered the application to early modern English literature of the methods applied by Bentley and continental scholars to Greek and Latin texts . ' Schoolmaster ...
... Greek goddess of learning . Let our English at least escape : Theobald pioneered the application to early modern English literature of the methods applied by Bentley and continental scholars to Greek and Latin texts . ' Schoolmaster ...
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... Greek . In ancient Sense if any needs will deal , Be sure I give them Fragments , not a Meal ; What Gellius or Stobaeus hash'd before , Or chew'd by blind old Scholiasts o'er and o'er . 226. Manilius or Solinus ] Some Critics having had ...
... Greek . In ancient Sense if any needs will deal , Be sure I give them Fragments , not a Meal ; What Gellius or Stobaeus hash'd before , Or chew'd by blind old Scholiasts o'er and o'er . 226. Manilius or Solinus ] Some Critics having had ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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