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 73
... Dunces ' but also ' all who knew those Dunces to reward ' ( II.21-6 ) . seemeth to embrace the whole World : Book III foresees Dulness's ' boundless empire ' spread- ing over ' all the nations ' ( III.67-72 ) . Each of the Games : In ...
... Dunces ' but also ' all who knew those Dunces to reward ' ( II.21-6 ) . seemeth to embrace the whole World : Book III foresees Dulness's ' boundless empire ' spread- ing over ' all the nations ' ( III.67-72 ) . Each of the Games : In ...
Page 150
... Dunces in her cause appear'd , And all who knew those Dunces to reward . Amid that area wide they took their stand , Where the tall may - pole once o'er - look'd the Strand ; But now ( so ANNE and Piety ordain ) 17-18 . Cp . Pope on the ...
... Dunces in her cause appear'd , And all who knew those Dunces to reward . Amid that area wide they took their stand , Where the tall may - pole once o'er - look'd the Strand ; But now ( so ANNE and Piety ordain ) 17-18 . Cp . Pope on the ...
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... dunces should abstain from attacking God 219. Content : The dunces are to be content that they have been given all God's creatures as objects of their malice , and not to grudge being forbidden to attack God himself . Warton thought the ...
... dunces should abstain from attacking God 219. Content : The dunces are to be content that they have been given all God's creatures as objects of their malice , and not to grudge being forbidden to attack God himself . Warton thought the ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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