The DunciadMethuen & Company Limited, 1939 - 476 pages |
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... CRITICISM , of which hear first the most ancient of Critics , Mr. JOHN DENNIS . " His precepts are false or trivial , or both ; his thoughts are 15 " crude and abortive , his expressions absurd , his numbers harsh " and unmusical , his ...
... CRITICISM , of which hear first the most ancient of Critics , Mr. JOHN DENNIS . " His precepts are false or trivial , or both ; his thoughts are 15 " crude and abortive , his expressions absurd , his numbers harsh " and unmusical , his ...
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... Criticism ( saith he ) which was published some " months since , is a master - piece in its kind . The observations " follow one another , like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , with- " out that methodical regularity which would have ...
... Criticism ( saith he ) which was published some " months since , is a master - piece in its kind . The observations " follow one another , like those in Horace's Art of Poetry , with- " out that methodical regularity which would have ...
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... critic , Mr. Dennis , sorely lamenting it , even from the Essay on Criticism to this day of the 5 Dunciad ! " A most notorious instance ( quoth he ) of the de- " pravity of genius and taste , the approbation this Essay meets " with " -I ...
... critic , Mr. Dennis , sorely lamenting it , even from the Essay on Criticism to this day of the 5 Dunciad ! " A most notorious instance ( quoth he ) of the de- " pravity of genius and taste , the approbation this Essay meets " with " -I ...
Contents
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xlix |
The Dunciad Variorum with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus I | 1 |
The Dunciad in Four Books | 248 |
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