The DunciadM. Cooper, 1970 - 235 pages |
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... reader ! cannot I but fmile at the strange blindness and positiveness of men ; knowing the faid treatise to appertain to none other but to me , Martinus Scriblerus . ] We are affured , in Mift of June 8 , " That his own Plays and Farces ...
... reader ! cannot I but fmile at the strange blindness and positiveness of men ; knowing the faid treatise to appertain to none other but to me , Martinus Scriblerus . ] We are affured , in Mift of June 8 , " That his own Plays and Farces ...
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... reader ; re- marking only , that Chaos ( according to Hefied's Oyoría ) was the Progenitor of all the Gods . SCRIBLERUS . VER . 15. Laborious , heavy , bufy , bold , & c . ] I wonder the learned Scriblerus has | omitted to advertise the ...
... reader ; re- marking only , that Chaos ( according to Hefied's Oyoría ) was the Progenitor of all the Gods . SCRIBLERUS . VER . 15. Laborious , heavy , bufy , bold , & c . ] I wonder the learned Scriblerus has | omitted to advertise the ...
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... reader ; but it would have been a wrong to him had I detain'd the publication ; fince thofe names which are its chief ornaments die off daily so fast , as must render it too soon unintelligible . If it pro- voke the author to give us a ...
... reader ; but it would have been a wrong to him had I detain'd the publication ; fince thofe names which are its chief ornaments die off daily so fast , as must render it too soon unintelligible . If it pro- voke the author to give us a ...
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