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 60
... Tory ; a writer ( at one and the same time ) of Guardians and Examiners ; an Assertor of liberty , and of the dispensing power of kings ; a Jesuitical professor of truth ; a base and a foul pretender to candour . ' So that , upon the ...
... Tory ; a writer ( at one and the same time ) of Guardians and Examiners ; an Assertor of liberty , and of the dispensing power of kings ; a Jesuitical professor of truth ; a base and a foul pretender to candour . ' So that , upon the ...
Page 192
... Tory friends . The matters raised in the note are best taken in chronological order . Edward Hyde ( 1609-74 ) , first Earl of Clarendon , was an adviser of Charles I , and accompanied the future Charles II into exile . After the ...
... Tory friends . The matters raised in the note are best taken in chronological order . Edward Hyde ( 1609-74 ) , first Earl of Clarendon , was an adviser of Charles I , and accompanied the future Charles II into exile . After the ...
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... Tory , educated at Eton , was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Anne , partisan of Bolingbroke and conspirator in the Jacobite rising of 1715 , leader of the Tory opposition under George I and George II , and hence a key figure in the ...
... Tory , educated at Eton , was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Anne , partisan of Bolingbroke and conspirator in the Jacobite rising of 1715 , leader of the Tory opposition under George I and George II , and hence a key figure in the ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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