The Dunciad, Volume 5Methuen, 1943 - 476 pages |
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... find all these meet , it puts me in mind of what the poet says of " one of his heroes , That he alone rais'd and flung with ease a 10 " weighty stone , that two common men could not lift from the " ground ; just so , one single person ...
... find all these meet , it puts me in mind of what the poet says of " one of his heroes , That he alone rais'd and flung with ease a 10 " weighty stone , that two common men could not lift from the " ground ; just so , one single person ...
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... find Space a real being . ( W. 1743. > 34. finds it square ] Regards the wild and fruitless attempts of squaring the Circle . P.W. 36. Watch'd both by Envy's and by Flatt'ry's eye ] One of the misfortunes There to her heart sad Tragedy ...
... find Space a real being . ( W. 1743. > 34. finds it square ] Regards the wild and fruitless attempts of squaring the Circle . P.W. 36. Watch'd both by Envy's and by Flatt'ry's eye ] One of the misfortunes There to her heart sad Tragedy ...
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... Find Virtue local , all Relation scorn , See all in Self- .. . > Here the Poet , from the errors relating to a Deity in Natural Philosophy , des- cends to those in Moral . Man was made according to God's Image ; this false Theology ...
... Find Virtue local , all Relation scorn , See all in Self- .. . > Here the Poet , from the errors relating to a Deity in Natural Philosophy , des- cends to those in Moral . Man was made according to God's Image ; this false Theology ...
Contents
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xlix |
The Dunciad Variorum with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus I | 1 |
The Dunciad in Four Books | 247 |
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