The DunciadMethuen & Company Limited, 1943 - 476 pages |
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Page xxxv
... laureate and the burlesquing of his wretched odes had become a literary game . Pope himself had already contributed a few couplets to the satirical canon ; but now , in this more splendid baiting of the revised Dunciad , he was once ...
... laureate and the burlesquing of his wretched odes had become a literary game . Pope himself had already contributed a few couplets to the satirical canon ; but now , in this more splendid baiting of the revised Dunciad , he was once ...
Page xxxix
... laureate in preference to Dryden . " Ogilby , " he writes , " brought in the Laurel and bound it round the Temples of Quarles ; but , as soon as the sacred Leaves touch'd the Seat of Dullness , they faded and wither'd away ... " There ...
... laureate in preference to Dryden . " Ogilby , " he writes , " brought in the Laurel and bound it round the Temples of Quarles ; but , as soon as the sacred Leaves touch'd the Seat of Dullness , they faded and wither'd away ... " There ...
Page 187
... Laureate for the same reason that Mr. Tibbald was made Hero of This Poem , because there was no better to be had . Nor ought Mr. Oldmixon to complain , so long after , that the Laurel would better have become his own brows , or any ...
... Laureate for the same reason that Mr. Tibbald was made Hero of This Poem , because there was no better to be had . Nor ought Mr. Oldmixon to complain , so long after , that the Laurel would better have become his own brows , or any ...
Contents
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xlix |
The Dunciad Variorum with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus I | 1 |
The Dunciad in Four Books | 247 |
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