The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: ...A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater, 1789 |
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... dunce . But every one was curious to read what could be faid to prove Mr. Pope one , and was ready to pay fomething for fuch a discovery : A ftratagem which would they fairly own , it might not only re- concile them to me , but fcreen ...
... dunce . But every one was curious to read what could be faid to prove Mr. Pope one , and was ready to pay fomething for fuch a discovery : A ftratagem which would they fairly own , it might not only re- concile them to me , but fcreen ...
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... Dunce the First ; and furely from what we hear of him , not unworthy to be the root of so spreading a tree , and so numerous a posterity . The poem therefore celebrating him was properly and abfolute- ly a Dunciad ; which though now ...
... Dunce the First ; and furely from what we hear of him , not unworthy to be the root of so spreading a tree , and so numerous a posterity . The poem therefore celebrating him was properly and abfolute- ly a Dunciad ; which though now ...
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... Dunce , with an e , therefore Dunceiad with an e . That accurate and punctual man of letters , the restorer of Shakespear , constantly obferves the pre- fervation of this very letter e , in spelling the name of his beloved author , and ...
... Dunce , with an e , therefore Dunceiad with an e . That accurate and punctual man of letters , the restorer of Shakespear , constantly obferves the pre- fervation of this very letter e , in spelling the name of his beloved author , and ...
Page 62
... Dunce the Second reigns like Dunce the Firft ; Say , REMARKS . ✓shall have any esteem for the remains of Menander and Phile- " mon . " THEOBALD . This is furely a flip in the learned author of the foregoing note , there having been ...
... Dunce the Second reigns like Dunce the Firft ; Say , REMARKS . ✓shall have any esteem for the remains of Menander and Phile- " mon . " THEOBALD . This is furely a flip in the learned author of the foregoing note , there having been ...
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... Dunce the second reigns like Dunce the first . " IMITATIONS . BENTL , Ver . 6. Alluding to a verse of Mr. Dryden , not in MacFleckno , ( as is faid ignorantly in the Key to the Dunciad , p . 1. ) , but in his verses to Mr. Congreve ...
... Dunce the second reigns like Dunce the first . " IMITATIONS . BENTL , Ver . 6. Alluding to a verse of Mr. Dryden , not in MacFleckno , ( as is faid ignorantly in the Key to the Dunciad , p . 1. ) , but in his verses to Mr. Congreve ...
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