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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In Four Books Alexander Pope Valerie Rumbold. 210 But Welsted most the Poet's healing balm Strives to extract from his soft , giving palm ; Unlucky Welsted ! thy unfeeling master , The more thou ticklest , gripes his fist the faster ...
In Four Books Alexander Pope Valerie Rumbold. 210 But Welsted most the Poet's healing balm Strives to extract from his soft , giving palm ; Unlucky Welsted ! thy unfeeling master , The more thou ticklest , gripes his fist the faster ...
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... Welsted had , in his youth , rais'd so great expectations of his future genius , that there was a kind of struggle between the most eminent in the two Universities , which should have the honour of his education . To compound this , he ...
... Welsted had , in his youth , rais'd so great expectations of his future genius , that there was a kind of struggle between the most eminent in the two Universities , which should have the honour of his education . To compound this , he ...
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... WELSTED : Not in fact Leonard Welsted , but a pseudonym used by Henley in the ' Narrative ' included in the Oratory Transactions N ° 1 ( 1728 ) . The quotations in the original commentary are loosely edited from this ' Narrative ' , the ...
... WELSTED : Not in fact Leonard Welsted , but a pseudonym used by Henley in the ' Narrative ' included in the Oratory Transactions N ° 1 ( 1728 ) . The quotations in the original commentary are loosely edited from this ' Narrative ' , the ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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