The Dunciad, Volume 5Methuen, 1943 - 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 and dramatist . An unguarded comment by Pope ( Essay on Criticism , Il . 582-7 ) on one of his tragedies enraged ... Criticism , 1709. If Pope is author of the anonymous Critical Specimen ( 1711 ) this was his first prose reply to ...
... Critic and dramatist . An unguarded comment by Pope ( Essay on Criticism , Il . 582-7 ) on one of his tragedies enraged ... Criticism , 1709. If Pope is author of the anonymous Critical Specimen ( 1711 ) this was his first prose reply to ...
Contents
PREFACE | xvi |
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xlix |
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED | 1 |
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