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
... Implying that it is the folly fearlessly displayed in Cibber's face that has made it famous . Cibber , implying that Pope had difficulty marketing his work , claimed that he deliberately capitalised on Cibber's fame : ' a Lick at the ...
... Implying that it is the folly fearlessly displayed in Cibber's face that has made it famous . Cibber , implying that Pope had difficulty marketing his work , claimed that he deliberately capitalised on Cibber's fame : ' a Lick at the ...
Page 213
... Implying that it is commonplace to see clergymen lying drunk in the street . On Cam's fair bank : I have been unable to identify the quotation . an eminent Casuist : Casuistry is the application of Christian principle to the detailed ...
... Implying that it is commonplace to see clergymen lying drunk in the street . On Cam's fair bank : I have been unable to identify the quotation . an eminent Casuist : Casuistry is the application of Christian principle to the detailed ...
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... implying that a man of his noble lineage ( he was descended from French aris- tocrats ) might more properly have been attended by a whole retinue ( Blanchard 1959 : 142 ) . The note also touches somewhat ironically in view of D'Urfey's ...
... implying that a man of his noble lineage ( he was descended from French aris- tocrats ) might more properly have been attended by a whole retinue ( Blanchard 1959 : 142 ) . The note also touches somewhat ironically in view of D'Urfey's ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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