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 37
... verse , by General Hamilton ; the same , in verse also , by Monsieur Roboton , Counsellor and Privy Secretary to king George I. after by the Abbé Reynel , in verse , with notes . Rape of the Lock , in French , by the Princess of Conti ...
... verse , by General Hamilton ; the same , in verse also , by Monsieur Roboton , Counsellor and Privy Secretary to king George I. after by the Abbé Reynel , in verse , with notes . Rape of the Lock , in French , by the Princess of Conti ...
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... verse generated by such centres as cygnets . 156 and n . tuneful whistling : ' Whistling ' ( as opposed to ' singing ' ) not only denigrates the occasional verse which supposedly distracts visitors to spa towns from the foul taste of ...
... verse generated by such centres as cygnets . 156 and n . tuneful whistling : ' Whistling ' ( as opposed to ' singing ' ) not only denigrates the occasional verse which supposedly distracts visitors to spa towns from the foul taste of ...
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... verse in the style of Virgil . Vida is best known for his life of Christ in verse , and Fracastoro for his account of syphilis . Neo - Latin verse was one of Pope's particular enthusiasms , and both poets are rep- resented at length in ...
... verse in the style of Virgil . Vida is best known for his life of Christ in verse , and Fracastoro for his account of syphilis . Neo - Latin verse was one of Pope's particular enthusiasms , and both poets are rep- resented at length in ...
Contents
The London area in the 1740s | 20 |
By Authority | 27 |
Testimonies of Authors | 43 |
Copyright | |
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