The DunciadM. Cooper, 1970 - 235 pages |
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... taste , the approbation this Eflay meets " with I can fafely affirm , that I never attacked any of these writings , " unless they had fuccefs infinitely beyond their merit . This , though an empty , has been a popular scribler . The ...
... taste , the approbation this Eflay meets " with I can fafely affirm , that I never attacked any of these writings , " unless they had fuccefs infinitely beyond their merit . This , though an empty , has been a popular scribler . The ...
Page 147
... taste , And ev'ry year be duller than the last . " Till rais'd from booths , to Theatre , to Court , Her feat imperial Dulness shall transport . Already Opera prepares the way , The fure fore - runner of her gentle sway : Let her thy ...
... taste , And ev'ry year be duller than the last . " Till rais'd from booths , to Theatre , to Court , Her feat imperial Dulness shall transport . Already Opera prepares the way , The fure fore - runner of her gentle sway : Let her thy ...
Page 150
... taste of Architecture in this Kingdom . VER . 330. Gay dies unpenfion'd , & c . ] See Mr. Gay's fable of the Hare and ma ny Friends . This gentleman was early in the friendship of our author , which continued to his death . He wrote ...
... taste of Architecture in this Kingdom . VER . 330. Gay dies unpenfion'd , & c . ] See Mr. Gay's fable of the Hare and ma ny Friends . This gentleman was early in the friendship of our author , which continued to his death . He wrote ...
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