The DunciadMethuen & Company Limited, 1943 - 476 pages |
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... learned commentary to Dr Walter Pope's Salisbury Ballad , and William King's Joan of Headington in Useful Miscellanies ( 1712 ) has a burlesque of the learned preface . But nowhere before the Dunciad had the thing been done so ...
... learned commentary to Dr Walter Pope's Salisbury Ballad , and William King's Joan of Headington in Useful Miscellanies ( 1712 ) has a burlesque of the learned preface . But nowhere before the Dunciad had the thing been done so ...
Page 267
... learned language is an Atchievement that brings honour to the " Critic who advances it ; and Dr. Bentley will be remembered to posterity for " his performances of this sort , as long as the world shall have any esteem for " the remains ...
... learned language is an Atchievement that brings honour to the " Critic who advances it ; and Dr. Bentley will be remembered to posterity for " his performances of this sort , as long as the world shall have any esteem for " the remains ...
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... learned University : being first expelled by the Cartesian , which , in its turn , gave place to the Newtonian . But it had all this while some faithful followers in secret , who never bowed the knee to Baal , nor acknowledged any ...
... learned University : being first expelled by the Cartesian , which , in its turn , gave place to the Newtonian . But it had all this while some faithful followers in secret , who never bowed the knee to Baal , nor acknowledged 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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