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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... translation . ' That ready writer Mr. OLDMIXON , in his forementioned Essay , frequently commends the same . And the painful Mr. LEWIS THEOBALD - I am - thus extols it , ' The spirit of Homer breathes all through this translation . in ...
... translation . ' That ready writer Mr. OLDMIXON , in his forementioned Essay , frequently commends the same . And the painful Mr. LEWIS THEOBALD - I am - thus extols it , ' The spirit of Homer breathes all through this translation . in ...
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... translate it after him , since he saith himself that he did it before . Contrariwise that y Vid . pref . to Mr. Tickel's translation of the first book of the Iliad , 4to . MIST'S JOURNAL , June 8 : Pope attributed the issue for 8 June ...
... translate it after him , since he saith himself that he did it before . Contrariwise that y Vid . pref . to Mr. Tickel's translation of the first book of the Iliad , 4to . MIST'S JOURNAL , June 8 : Pope attributed the issue for 8 June ...
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... translation of Homer to be , as it was prior , so likewise superior to Pope's . Surely , surely , every man is free to deserve well of his country ! JOHN ÖZELL . We cannot but subscribe to such reverend testimonies , as those of the ...
... translation of Homer to be , as it was prior , so likewise superior to Pope's . Surely , surely , every man is free to deserve well of his country ! JOHN ÖZELL . We cannot but subscribe to such reverend testimonies , as those of the ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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