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 96
... honour of the Laurel . It appears as plainly from the Apostrophe to the Great in the third verse , that Tibbald could not be the person , who was never an Author in fashion , or caressed by the Great ; whereas this single characteristic ...
... honour of the Laurel . It appears as plainly from the Apostrophe to the Great in the third verse , that Tibbald could not be the person , who was never an Author in fashion , or caressed by the Great ; whereas this single characteristic ...
Page 237
... honour . Mr Dennis argues the same way . ' My writings having made great impression on the minds of all sensible men , Mr. P. repented , and to give proof of his Repentance , subscribed to my two volumes of select Works , and afterward ...
... honour . Mr Dennis argues the same way . ' My writings having made great impression on the minds of all sensible men , Mr. P. repented , and to give proof of his Repentance , subscribed to my two volumes of select Works , and afterward ...
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... honours to poesy ; the rather , since there are so many parallel circumstances in the person who was then honoured with ... honour in which they were held , came to the city , bringing with him a strange kind of lyre in his hand , and at ...
... honours to poesy ; the rather , since there are so many parallel circumstances in the person who was then honoured with ... honour in which they were held , came to the city , bringing with him a strange kind of lyre in his hand , and at ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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