The DunciadM. Cooper, 1970 - 235 pages |
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Page xxvi
... POEM . T HIS poem , as it celebrateth the moft grave and ancient of things , Chaos , Night , and Dulnefs ; fo is it of the most grave and ancient kind . Homer ( faith Ariftotle ) was the first who gave the Form , and ( faith Horace ) ...
... POEM . T HIS poem , as it celebrateth the moft grave and ancient of things , Chaos , Night , and Dulnefs ; fo is it of the most grave and ancient kind . Homer ( faith Ariftotle ) was the first who gave the Form , and ( faith Horace ) ...
Page xxvii
... poem therefore celebrating him was properly and abfolutely a Dunciad ; which though now unhappily loft , yet is its nature fufficiently known by the infallible tokens aforefaid . And thus it doth appear , that the first Dunciad was the ...
... poem therefore celebrating him was properly and abfolutely a Dunciad ; which though now unhappily loft , yet is its nature fufficiently known by the infallible tokens aforefaid . And thus it doth appear , that the first Dunciad was the ...
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... Poem : The latter of them is only chofen as her Collegue ( as was anciently the custom in Rome before fome great Expedition ) the main action of the Poem being by no means the Coronation of the Laureate , which is performed in the very ...
... Poem : The latter of them is only chofen as her Collegue ( as was anciently the custom in Rome before fome great Expedition ) the main action of the Poem being by no means the Coronation of the Laureate , which is performed in the very ...
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