The Dunciad, Volume 5Methuen, 1943 - 476 pages |
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Page 88
... play was substantially his . Theobald , while admit- ting that Meystayer brought him the story " wrought up into Something design'd to be call'd Tragedy , " insisted that the play as it left his hands had been almost entirely re ...
... play was substantially his . Theobald , while admit- ting that Meystayer brought him the story " wrought up into Something design'd to be call'd Tragedy , " insisted that the play as it left his hands had been almost entirely re ...
Page 180
... 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 , ( which methinks in an author for whom he has a Veneration almost ...
... 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 , ( which methinks in an author for whom he has a Veneration almost ...
Page 278
... Play ; Nonsense precipitate , like running Lead , That slip'd thro ' Cracks and Zig - zags of the Head ; All that on Folly Frenzy could beget , Fruits of dull Heat , and Sooterkins of Wit . Next , o'er his Books his eyes began to roll ...
... Play ; Nonsense precipitate , like running Lead , That slip'd thro ' Cracks and Zig - zags of the Head ; All that on Folly Frenzy could beget , Fruits of dull Heat , and Sooterkins of Wit . Next , o'er his Books his eyes began to roll ...
Contents
PREFACE | xvi |
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE | xlix |
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED | 1 |
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