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 158
... Virgil ; the very words övbos and fimus are used by them , though our poet ( in compliance to modern nicety ) has remark- ably enriched and coloured his language , as well as raised the versification , in this Episode , and in the ...
... Virgil ; the very words övbos and fimus are used by them , though our poet ( in compliance to modern nicety ) has remark- ably enriched and coloured his language , as well as raised the versification , in this Episode , and in the ...
Page 379
... Virgil , and how judiciously reduced Virgil's thoughts to the standard of Pastoral ; as his contention of Colin - Clout and the Nightingale shows with what exactness he hath imitated every line in Strada . When I remarked it as a ...
... Virgil , and how judiciously reduced Virgil's thoughts to the standard of Pastoral ; as his contention of Colin - Clout and the Nightingale shows with what exactness he hath imitated every line in Strada . When I remarked it as a ...
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... VIRGIL . Tonson calls it Dryden's Virgil , to shew that this is not that Virgil so admir'd in the Augustaean age ; but a Virgil of another stamp , a silly , impertinent , nonsen- sical writer " . None but a Bavius , a Maevius , or a ...
... VIRGIL . Tonson calls it Dryden's Virgil , to shew that this is not that Virgil so admir'd in the Augustaean age ; but a Virgil of another stamp , a silly , impertinent , nonsen- sical writer " . None but a Bavius , a Maevius , or a ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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