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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... SCRIBL . the distinction an- NOTE ON TITLE . Initialled in 1751 as jointly by Pope and Warburton . ciently made : A Greek poem , now lost , offered a brief continuation of the story of the Iliad , and was distinguished by the title of ...
... SCRIBL . the distinction an- NOTE ON TITLE . Initialled in 1751 as jointly by Pope and Warburton . ciently made : A Greek poem , now lost , offered a brief continuation of the story of the Iliad , and was distinguished by the title of ...
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... SCRIBL . 248. ] Here the learned Aristarchus ending the first member of his harangue in behalf of Words ; and entering on the other half , which regards the teaching of Things ; very artfully connects the two parts in an encomium on ...
... SCRIBL . 248. ] Here the learned Aristarchus ending the first member of his harangue in behalf of Words ; and entering on the other half , which regards the teaching of Things ; very artfully connects the two parts in an encomium on ...
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... SCRIBL . 608. leaden ] An Epithet from the Age she had just then restored , according to that sub- lime custom of the Easterns , in calling new - born Princes after some great and recent Event . SCRIBL . 610. ] Implying a great desire ...
... SCRIBL . 608. leaden ] An Epithet from the Age she had just then restored , according to that sub- lime custom of the Easterns , in calling new - born Princes after some great and recent Event . SCRIBL . 610. ] Implying a great desire ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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