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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... head he turn'd aside , ( Not half so pleas'd when Goodman prophesy'd ) And look'd , and saw a sable Sorc'rer rise , 224. ] Virg . Aen . vi . puts this precept into the mouth of a wicked man , as here of a stupid one : ' Discite ...
... head he turn'd aside , ( Not half so pleas'd when Goodman prophesy'd ) And look'd , and saw a sable Sorc'rer rise , 224. ] Virg . Aen . vi . puts this precept into the mouth of a wicked man , as here of a stupid one : ' Discite ...
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... head ; Or vest dull Flatt'ry in the sacred Gown ; Or give from fool to fool the Laurel crown . And ( last and worst ) ... Head is overcharg'd with Rain ' , and Pope's translation of the death of a Homeric warrior : ' As full blown Poppies ...
... head ; Or vest dull Flatt'ry in the sacred Gown ; Or give from fool to fool the Laurel crown . And ( last and worst ) ... Head is overcharg'd with Rain ' , and Pope's translation of the death of a Homeric warrior : ' As full blown Poppies ...
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... head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it , And write about it , Goddess , and about it : So spins the silk - worm small its slender store , And labours till it clouds itself all o'er ...
... head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it , And write about it , Goddess , and about it : So spins the silk - worm small its slender store , And labours till it clouds itself all o'er ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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