The Dunciad, Volume 5Methuen, 1943 - 476 pages |
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Page 75
... Ovid , as we find from Mr. Dennis's Remarks on Pope's Homer , p . 9. 10. " There is a notorious Ideot , one hight Whachum , who " from an under - spur - leather to the Law , is become an under - strapper to the " Play - house , who has ...
... Ovid , as we find from Mr. Dennis's Remarks on Pope's Homer , p . 9. 10. " There is a notorious Ideot , one hight Whachum , who " from an under - spur - leather to the Law , is become an under - strapper to the " Play - house , who has ...
Page 107
... ( Ovid , Met . xv 879 : si quid habent veri vatum praesagia . - Wakefield . > 74. Vaticide ( The poet was often called vates . Curll was a vaticide because he was a murderer of poets , either by paying them too little , or by producing ...
... ( Ovid , Met . xv 879 : si quid habent veri vatum praesagia . - Wakefield . > 74. Vaticide ( The poet was often called vates . Curll was a vaticide because he was a murderer of poets , either by paying them too little , or by producing ...
Page 290
... Ovid . " There is a notorious Idiot , one hight Whachum , who , from an under - spur- " leather to the Law , is become an under - strapper to the Play - house , who hath " lately burlesqued the Metamorphoses of Ovid by a vile ...
... Ovid . " There is a notorious Idiot , one hight Whachum , who , from an under - spur- " leather to the Law , is become an under - strapper to the Play - house , who hath " lately burlesqued the Metamorphoses of Ovid by a vile ...
Contents
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xlix |
The Dunciad Variorum with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus I | 1 |
The Dunciad in Four Books | 247 |
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