The Dunciad, Variorum: With the Prolegomena of Scriblerus |
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... 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 but derive one pleasure from the very Obfcurity of the ...
... 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 but derive one pleasure from the very Obfcurity of the ...
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... must expect to survive , _ ( and bere Jurvive they will , as long as the English tongue ball remain fuch as it was in the reigns of Queen ANNE and King GEORGE ) it seem❜d but humanity to beftow a word or two upon each , just to tell ...
... must expect to survive , _ ( and bere Jurvive they will , as long as the English tongue ball remain fuch as it was in the reigns of Queen ANNE and King GEORGE ) it seem❜d but humanity to beftow a word or two upon each , just to tell ...
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... must be allow'd , our author by and in this poem , has mercifully given ' em a lit- tle of both . There are two or three , who by their rank and fortune have no benefit from the former objections ( fuppofing them good ) and these I was ...
... must be allow'd , our author by and in this poem , has mercifully given ' em a lit- tle of both . There are two or three , who by their rank and fortune have no benefit from the former objections ( fuppofing them good ) and these I was ...
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... must be allow'd to think the character of our English Poet the more amiable . He has not been a follower of fortune or fuccefs : He has liv'd with the great without Flattery , been a friend to Men in Power without Penfions , from whom ...
... must be allow'd to think the character of our English Poet the more amiable . He has not been a follower of fortune or fuccefs : He has liv'd with the great without Flattery , been a friend to Men in Power without Penfions , from whom ...
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... must be to every reader of hu manity , to fee all along , that our Author in his very laughter , is not indulging his own Ill nature , but only punishing that of others . To his Poem those alone are capa ble to do Justice , who to use ...
... must be to every reader of hu manity , to fee all along , that our Author in his very laughter , is not indulging his own Ill nature , but only punishing that of others . To his Poem those alone are capa ble to do Justice , who to use ...
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