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 66
... ( Queen Anne's ) Ministry : Dennis , writing in 1717 , had no need to name the late Queen ( d . 1714 ) , but Pope has added the parenthesis so that Dennis's sneer at an adminis- tration led by Pope's Tory friends Oxford and Bolingbroke ...
... ( Queen Anne's ) Ministry : Dennis , writing in 1717 , had no need to name the late Queen ( d . 1714 ) , but Pope has added the parenthesis so that Dennis's sneer at an adminis- tration led by Pope's Tory friends Oxford and Bolingbroke ...
Page 150
... Queen : Dulness . herald Hawkers : Presumably crying newspapers and other ephemera in which the games are im- agined as announced . 19-20 . all her Race : All those who , like Bays , look to Dulness as mother . 21-2 . The social mix is ...
... Queen : Dulness . herald Hawkers : Presumably crying newspapers and other ephemera in which the games are im- agined as announced . 19-20 . all her Race : All those who , like Bays , look to Dulness as mother . 21-2 . The social mix is ...
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... Queen , and common Mother of us all ! 405 Fair from its humble bed I rear'd this Flow'r , Suckled , and chear'd , with air , and sun , and show'r , Soft on the paper ruff its leaves I spread , Bright with the gilded button tipt its head ...
... Queen , and common Mother of us all ! 405 Fair from its humble bed I rear'd this Flow'r , Suckled , and chear'd , with air , and sun , and show'r , Soft on the paper ruff its leaves I spread , Bright with the gilded button tipt its head ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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