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 79
... Hero , that Courage is all collected into the Face . And as Power when drawn together , must needs be more strong ... Hero's composition , is a mere bird of passage , or ( as Shakespear calls it ) summer - teeming Lust , and evaporates ...
... Hero , that Courage is all collected into the Face . And as Power when drawn together , must needs be more strong ... Hero's composition , is a mere bird of passage , or ( as Shakespear calls it ) summer - teeming Lust , and evaporates ...
Page 83
... Hero may comfort himself with this reflexion , that tho ' it be sleep , yet it is not the sleep of death , but of immortality . Here he will live at least , tho ' not awake ; and in no worse condition than many an enchanted Warrior ...
... Hero may comfort himself with this reflexion , that tho ' it be sleep , yet it is not the sleep of death , but of immortality . Here he will live at least , tho ' not awake ; and in no worse condition than many an enchanted Warrior ...
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... Hero sate , ] It is amazing how the sense of this hath been mistaken by all the former commentators , who most idly suppose it to imply that the Hero of the poem wanted a supper . In truth a great absurdity ! Not that we are ignorant ...
... Hero sate , ] It is amazing how the sense of this hath been mistaken by all the former commentators , who most idly suppose it to imply that the Hero of the poem wanted a supper . In truth a great absurdity ! Not that we are ignorant ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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