The Dunciad, Volume 5Methuen, 1943 - 476 pages |
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Page 44
... should be unknown , would fancy him a prodigy of " art and nature , would believe that all the great qualities of 20 " these persons were centered in him alone . - But if I should " venture to assure him , that the PEOPLE of ENGLAND had ...
... should be unknown , would fancy him a prodigy of " art and nature , would believe that all the great qualities of 20 " these persons were centered in him alone . - But if I should " venture to assure him , that the PEOPLE of ENGLAND had ...
Page 115
... should love , is Mr. Curl . True it is , he stood in the Pillory ; an accident which will lengthen the face of any man tho ' it were ever so comely , therefore is no reflection on the natural beauty of Mr. Curl . < Curll was in person ...
... should love , is Mr. Curl . True it is , he stood in the Pillory ; an accident which will lengthen the face of any man tho ' it were ever so comely , therefore is no reflection on the natural beauty of Mr. Curl . < Curll was in person ...
Page 359
... should therefore conjecture , that the genuine reading of the forecited verse was thus , -nunquam Libertas gratior exstat Quam sub Lege pia— and that Rege was the reading only of Dulness herself : And therefore she might allude to it ...
... should therefore conjecture , that the genuine reading of the forecited verse was thus , -nunquam Libertas gratior exstat Quam sub Lege pia— and that Rege was the reading only of Dulness herself : And therefore she might allude to it ...
Contents
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xlix |
The Dunciad Variorum with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus I | 1 |
The Dunciad in Four Books | 247 |
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