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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... thing in the world , to distinguish good writers , by discouraging the bad . Nor is it an ill - natured thing , in relation even to the very persons upon whom the reflections are made . It is true , it may deprive them , a little the ...
... thing in the world , to distinguish good writers , by discouraging the bad . Nor is it an ill - natured thing , in relation even to the very persons upon whom the reflections are made . It is true , it may deprive them , a little the ...
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... thing called The Battle of Poets , in which Philips and Welsted were the Heroes , and Swift and Pope utterly routed . He also published some malevolent things in the British , London , and Daily Journals ; and at the same time wrote ...
... thing called The Battle of Poets , in which Philips and Welsted were the Heroes , and Swift and Pope utterly routed . He also published some malevolent things in the British , London , and Daily Journals ; and at the same time wrote ...
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... 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 . 247. the heavy Canon ] Canon here , if spoken of Artillery , is ...
... 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 . 247. the heavy Canon ] Canon here , if spoken of Artillery , is ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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