The Works of Alexander Pope Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warbuton, 5. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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Page iv
... dunce . But every one was curi- ous 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 reconcile them to me , but fcreen ...
... dunce . But every one was curi- ous 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 reconcile them to me , but fcreen ...
Page xliii
... Dunce the first ; and furely from what we hear of him , not unworthy to be the root of fo fpreading a tree , and fo numerous a pofterity . The poem therefore celebrating him was pro- perly and abfolutely a Dunciad ; which though now un ...
... Dunce the first ; and furely from what we hear of him , not unworthy to be the root of fo fpreading a tree , and fo numerous a pofterity . The poem therefore celebrating him was pro- perly and abfolutely a Dunciad ; which though now un ...
Page 65
... Dunce with ạn e , therefore Dunceiad with an e . That accurate and punctual Man of Letters , the Reftorer of Shakespear , constantly ob- ferves the prefervation of this very Letter e , in fpelling the VOL . V. E I fing . Say you , her ...
... Dunce with ạn e , therefore Dunceiad with an e . That accurate and punctual Man of Letters , the Reftorer of Shakespear , constantly ob- ferves the prefervation of this very Letter e , in fpelling the VOL . V. E I fing . Say you , her ...
Page 67
... Dunce the second reigns like Dunce the firft ; REMARK S. to agree with those who would add yet another e to it , and call it the Dunceiade ; which being a French and foreign termi- nation , is no way proper to a word entirely English ...
... Dunce the second reigns like Dunce the firft ; REMARK S. to agree with those who would add yet another e to it , and call it the Dunceiade ; which being a French and foreign termi- nation , is no way proper to a word entirely English ...
Page 68
... Dunce the fecond reigns like Dunce the firft . BENTL . VER . 1. The Mighty Mother , and her Son , & c . ] The Reader ought here to be cautioned , that the Mother and not the Son , is the principal Agent of this Poem : The latter of them ...
... Dunce the fecond reigns like Dunce the firft . BENTL . VER . 1. The Mighty Mother , and her Son , & c . ] The Reader ought here to be cautioned , that the Mother and not the Son , is the principal Agent of this Poem : The latter of them ...
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