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It has often been held that Cibber was quite unsuited to be the hero of a poem on
dullness. Could he properly he called a dull man or a dull writer? Cibber very
naturally had doubts on this point himself; and in at least some of his plays, in his
...
It has often been held that Cibber was quite unsuited to be the hero of a poem on
dullness. Could he properly he called a dull man or a dull writer? Cibber very
naturally had doubts on this point himself; and in at least some of his plays, in his
...
Page 207
REFLECTIONS Critical and Satyrical on a late Rhapsody called an Essay on
Criticism. By Mr. Dennis. Printed for B. Lintot. Price 6d. A New Rehearsal, or Bays
the Younger, Containing an Examen of Mr. Rowe's Plays, and a word or two
upon ...
REFLECTIONS Critical and Satyrical on a late Rhapsody called an Essay on
Criticism. By Mr. Dennis. Printed for B. Lintot. Price 6d. A New Rehearsal, or Bays
the Younger, Containing an Examen of Mr. Rowe's Plays, and a word or two
upon ...
Page 432
Pope's reference to "Courts of Law" in the later editions probably alludes to
Budgell's troubles in 1733 over the will of Matthew Tindal, though he was never
called upon to face a charge in court (cf. Ep. to Arbuthnot, 378-9); but his later life
was ...
Pope's reference to "Courts of Law" in the later editions probably alludes to
Budgell's troubles in 1733 over the will of Matthew Tindal, though he was never
called upon to face a charge in court (cf. Ep. to Arbuthnot, 378-9); but his later life
was ...
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Contents
INTRODUCTION ix | xxvi |
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xlix |
The Dunciad Variorum with the Prolegomena of Scriblerus | 1 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Dunciad Volume 5 of Poems of Alexander Pope, Alexander Pope Twickenham edition of the poems of Alexander Pope |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Editor | James Runcieman Sutherland |
| Publisher | Methuen & Company Limited, 1939 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 476 pages |
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