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Rodrigo, the chief personage of the Perfidious Brother, a play written between T.
and a Watchmaker. <This tragedy was published in 1715 as being "by Mr.
Theobald." The following year Henry Meystayer, a watchmaker, published a
different ...
Rodrigo, the chief personage of the Perfidious Brother, a play written between T.
and a Watchmaker. <This tragedy was published in 1715 as being "by Mr.
Theobald." The following year Henry Meystayer, a watchmaker, published a
different ...
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None but thy self can be thy parallel] A marvellous line of Theobald; unless the
Play call'd the Double Falshood be, (as he would have it believed) Shake-
spear's: But whether this line be his or not, he proves Shakespear to have written
as bad ...
None but thy self can be thy parallel] A marvellous line of Theobald; unless the
Play call'd the Double Falshood be, (as he would have it believed) Shake-
spear's: But whether this line be his or not, he proves Shakespear to have written
as bad ...
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George I paid a visit to the theatre to see Cibber's play "and seem'd to be mightily
pleas'd." — Some Cursory Remarks on the Play call'd the Jfon- Juror, 1718, p. 29.
In the Public Record Office (S.P. 35/11/33) there is a letter of Cibber's to the ...
George I paid a visit to the theatre to see Cibber's play "and seem'd to be mightily
pleas'd." — Some Cursory Remarks on the Play call'd the Jfon- Juror, 1718, p. 29.
In the Public Record Office (S.P. 35/11/33) there is a letter of Cibber's to the ...
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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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Bibliographic information
| 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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