The Dunciad, Volume 5Methuen, 1943 - 476 pages |
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Page xxxix
... themselves to the satirizing of dullness , obscenity , and other literary defects ; the good work had been carried on by many of Pope's dunces themselves . Almost every writer in this age , even the dullest , seems to have been acutely ...
... themselves to the satirizing of dullness , obscenity , and other literary defects ; the good work had been carried on by many of Pope's dunces themselves . Almost every writer in this age , even the dullest , seems to have been acutely ...
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... themselves will be so soon and so irrecoverably lost . You may in some measure prevent it , by 10 preserving at least their * Titles , and discovering ( as far as you can depend on the truth of your information ) the names of the ...
... themselves will be so soon and so irrecoverably lost . You may in some measure prevent it , by 10 preserving at least their * Titles , and discovering ( as far as you can depend on the truth of your information ) the names of the ...
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... themselves to give their readers sleep . Much to the mindful Queen the feast recalls , What City - Swans once sung within the walls ; Much she revolves their arts , their ancient praise , And sure succession down from Heywood's days ...
... themselves to give their readers sleep . Much to the mindful Queen the feast recalls , What City - Swans once sung within the walls ; Much she revolves their arts , their ancient praise , And sure succession down from Heywood's days ...
Contents
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xlix |
The Dunciad Variorum with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus I | 1 |
The Dunciad in Four Books | 247 |
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