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 34
... satyr . The persons themselves , rather than allow the objection , would forgive the satyr ; and if one could be tempted to afford it a serious answer , were not all assassinates , popular insurrections , the insolence of the rabble ...
... satyr . The persons themselves , rather than allow the objection , would forgive the satyr ; and if one could be tempted to afford it a serious answer , were not all assassinates , popular insurrections , the insolence of the rabble ...
Page 162
... satyrs on the translators of Homer , with many other things printed in news - papers . ā ' Bond writ a satyr against Mr. Pā . Capt . Breval was author of The Confederates , an ingeni- ous dramatic performance to expose Mr. P. Mr. Gay ...
... satyrs on the translators of Homer , with many other things printed in news - papers . ā ' Bond writ a satyr against Mr. Pā . Capt . Breval was author of The Confederates , an ingeni- ous dramatic performance to expose Mr. P. Mr. Gay ...
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... Satyr on Comedy , as their substitutes in the discharge of their distinct functions : the one in high life , recording the crimes and punishments of the great ; the other in low , exposing the vices or follies of the common people . But ...
... Satyr on Comedy , as their substitutes in the discharge of their distinct functions : the one in high life , recording the crimes and punishments of the great ; the other in low , exposing the vices or follies of the common people . But ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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