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... POEM . DUNCIADOS PERIOCHA : Or , Arguments to the Books . The DUNCIAD , in three Books . NOTES VARIORUM : Being the Scholia of the learned M. SCRIBLERUS and others with the Adver faria of JOHN DENNIS , LEWIS THEOBALD , EDMUND CURL , the ...
... POEM . DUNCIADOS PERIOCHA : Or , Arguments to the Books . The DUNCIAD , in three Books . NOTES VARIORUM : Being the Scholia of the learned M. SCRIBLERUS and others with the Adver faria of JOHN DENNIS , LEWIS THEOBALD , EDMUND CURL , the ...
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... Poem , was sent me from feveral hands , and confe quently must be unequally written ; yet will it bave one advantage over moft Commentaries , that it is not made upon Conjectures , or a re- mote diftance of time : and the Reader cannot ...
... Poem , was sent me from feveral hands , and confe quently must be unequally written ; yet will it bave one advantage over moft Commentaries , that it is not made upon Conjectures , or a re- mote diftance of time : and the Reader cannot ...
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... Poem too much a Cento ; our Poet will but appear to have done the fame thing in jeft , which Boileau did in earneft ; and upon which Vida , Fracaftorius , and many of the most eminent Latin Poets pro- felfedly valued themselves . A 3 ...
... Poem too much a Cento ; our Poet will but appear to have done the fame thing in jeft , which Boileau did in earneft ; and upon which Vida , Fracaftorius , and many of the most eminent Latin Poets pro- felfedly valued themselves . A 3 ...
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... COMMENTARY : a work fo neceffary , that I cannot think the Author himself would have omitted it , had he approv'd of the first appearance of this Poem Such Such Notes as have occurr'd to me I here with prefent Edition of the DUNCIA.
... COMMENTARY : a work fo neceffary , that I cannot think the Author himself would have omitted it , had he approv'd of the first appearance of this Poem Such Such Notes as have occurr'd to me I here with prefent Edition of the DUNCIA.
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... Poem is , that the Perfons are too ob- fcure for Satyre . The Perfons themselves , rather than allow the objection , would for- give the Satyre ; and if one could be tempt- ed to afford it a ferious anfwer , were not all affaffinates ...
... Poem is , that the Perfons are too ob- fcure for Satyre . The Perfons themselves , rather than allow the objection , would for- give the Satyre ; and if one could be tempt- ed to afford it a ferious anfwer , were not all affaffinates ...
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