The dunciad, in four booksJ. French, 1777 - 195 pages |
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Page viii
... fame of bad authors would be much better confulted than that of all the good ones in the world ; and not one of an hundred had ever been called by his right name . They mistake the whole matter : It is not charity to encourage them in ...
... fame of bad authors would be much better confulted than that of all the good ones in the world ; and not one of an hundred had ever been called by his right name . They mistake the whole matter : It is not charity to encourage them in ...
Page ix
... fame that they were . One , therefore , of their affertions I believe may be true , " That he has a contempt for their writings . " And there is another , which would probably be sooner allowed by himself than by any good judge befide ...
... fame that they were . One , therefore , of their affertions I believe may be true , " That he has a contempt for their writings . " And there is another , which would probably be sooner allowed by himself than by any good judge befide ...
Page x
... Fame , and Fortune ; in the diftinctions fhewn them by their Superiors , in the ge- neral esteem of their Equals , and in their extended reputation amongst Foreigners ; in the latter of which ours has met with the better fate , as he ...
... Fame , and Fortune ; in the diftinctions fhewn them by their Superiors , in the ge- neral esteem of their Equals , and in their extended reputation amongst Foreigners ; in the latter of which ours has met with the better fate , as he ...
Page xv
... in execution against a Thief or Impoftor . - The fame will hold in the republic of Letters , if the Critics and Judges will let every ignorant pretender to scribbling pass on the World . THEOBALD , Letter to Mist , June 22 , 1728.
... in execution against a Thief or Impoftor . - The fame will hold in the republic of Letters , if the Critics and Judges will let every ignorant pretender to scribbling pass on the World . THEOBALD , Letter to Mist , June 22 , 1728.
Page xviii
... fame form which Homer's is reported to have had , namely that of Epic poem : with a title alfo framed after the antient Greek manner , to wit , that of Dunciad . Wonderful it is , that fo few of the moderns have been stimulated to ...
... fame form which Homer's is reported to have had , namely that of Epic poem : with a title alfo framed after the antient Greek manner , to wit , that of Dunciad . Wonderful it is , that fo few of the moderns have been stimulated to ...
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abuſed Advertiſements Æneid affures againſt alfo almoſt alſo bards Bavius becauſe Behold caufe cauſe CHARLES GILDON Cibber Concanen Curl Daily Journal Dennis Dryden dull Dulneſs Dunce Dunciad Effay on Criticiſm Engliſh Eridanus ev'ry eyes faid fame fatire fave feems fhall fhew fhould fince fing firft firſt fleeps fome fons foon former Edit foul ftill ftream fuch fure Gildon Goddeſs hath head himſelf Homer Iliad IMITATIONS JOHN DENNIS juſt King laſt leaſt lefs LEONARD WELSTED Letter LEWIS THEOBALD Mift's moſt Mufe Muſe muſt o'er occafion octavo Oldmixon Ovid paſt perfons poem Poets Pope Pope's pow'r praiſe Pref preſent printed profe publiſhed Queen reafon reft rife ſecond Shakeſpear ſhall ſhe ſome ſpeak ſpread ſtand ſtate ſtill thee thefe themſelves Theobald theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thro throne tranflated VARIATIONS verfe verſe Virg Virgil whofe whoſe writ writing
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Page xxx - ... delivered. As for those which are the most known, and the most received, they are placed in so beautiful a light, and illustrated with such apt allusions, that they have in them all the graces of novelty, and make the reader, who was before acquainted with them, still more convinced of their truth and solidity.
Page xxx - And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so very well enlarged upon in the preface to his works, that wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn.
Page 63 - How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and Ocean turns to land. Here gay Description...
Page 146 - Thou, only thou, directing all our way! To where the Seine, obsequious as she runs, Pours at great Bourbon's feet her silken sons; Or Tyber, now no longer Roman, rolls Vain of...
Page 144 - For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read : For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, goddess, and about it : So spins the silkworm small its slender store, And labours till it clouds itself all o'er.
Page 145 - Show all his paces, not a step advance. With the same cement, ever sure to bind, We bring to one dead level every mind : Then take him to develop, if you can, And hew the block off, and get out the man. But wherefore waste I words ? I see advance Whore, pupil, and lac'd governor from France."12 Walker ! our hat ' nor more he deign'd to say, But stern as Ajax
Page 144 - The critic eye, that microscope of wit, Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit : How parts relate to parts, or they to whole, The body's harmony, the beaming soul, Are things which Kuster, Burman, Wasse shall see, When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea.
Page 60 - Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne, And laughs to think Monroe would take her down, Where o'er the gates, by his fam'd father's hand Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand; One Cell there is, conceal'd from vulgar eye, The Cave of Poverty and Poetry. Keen, hollow winds howl thro' the bleak recess, Emblem of Music caus'd by Emptiness.
Page 147 - ... naked Venus keeps, And Cupids ride the Lion of the Deeps; Where, eas'd of Fleets, the Adriatic main Wafts the smooth Eunuch and enamour'd swain. Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round, And gather'd ev'ry Vice on Christian ground...
Page 143 - Thy mighty scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it prose again. Roman and Greek grammarians ! know your better Author of something yet more great than letter ; While towering o'er your alphabet, like Saul, Stands our Digamma, and o'ertops them all.