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 84
... Roman histor- ian , Fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae : Every man is the Smith of his own fortune . The politic ... Roman historian : The quotation is from the early Roman poet Appius , quoted in Ad Caesarem Senem De Re Publica Oratio ...
... Roman histor- ian , Fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae : Every man is the Smith of his own fortune . The politic ... Roman historian : The quotation is from the early Roman poet Appius , quoted in Ad Caesarem Senem De Re Publica Oratio ...
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... Roman magnificence to be destroyed , lest those who came to Rome should give more attention to Triumphal Arches , etc. than to holy things . Bayle , Dict . 99-100 . Cp . Dryden on the fate of poetry and painting during the Middle Ages ...
... Roman magnificence to be destroyed , lest those who came to Rome should give more attention to Triumphal Arches , etc. than to holy things . Bayle , Dict . 99-100 . Cp . Dryden on the fate of poetry and painting during the Middle Ages ...
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... Roman and Greek Grammarians ! know your Better : 207. He , kingly , did but nod ; ] Milton : ' He , kingly , from his State / Declin'd not ' . 210. is Aristarchus yet unknown ? ] ' Sic notus Ulysses ? ' Virg . ' Dost thou not feel me ...
... Roman and Greek Grammarians ! know your Better : 207. He , kingly , did but nod ; ] Milton : ' He , kingly , from his State / Declin'd not ' . 210. is Aristarchus yet unknown ? ] ' Sic notus Ulysses ? ' Virg . ' Dost thou not feel me ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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