Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works |
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Page 151
... Dunciad , as Pope himself declares , is an imitation , though more extended in its plan , and more diversified in its incidents . It is related by Prior , that Lord Dorset , when as chamberlain he was constrained to eject Dryden from ...
... Dunciad , as Pope himself declares , is an imitation , though more extended in its plan , and more diversified in its incidents . It is related by Prior , that Lord Dorset , when as chamberlain he was constrained to eject Dryden from ...
Page 289
... Dunciad : — " This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known . Besides being acted in London sixty - three days without interruption , and renewed the next season with equal applause , it spread into all the great ...
... Dunciad : — " This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known . Besides being acted in London sixty - three days without interruption , and renewed the next season with equal applause , it spread into all the great ...
Page 318
... Dunciad , which were addressed by Mr. Savage to the Earl of Middlesex , in a dedicationt which he was prevailed upon to sign , though he did not write it , and in which there are some positions , that the true author would perhaps not ...
... Dunciad , which were addressed by Mr. Savage to the Earl of Middlesex , in a dedicationt which he was prevailed upon to sign , though he did not write it , and in which there are some positions , that the true author would perhaps not ...
Page 319
... Dunciad , however strange and improbable , was exactly true . The publication of this piece at this time raised Mr. Savage a great number of enemies among those that were attacked by Mr. Pope , with whom he was considered as a kind of ...
... Dunciad , however strange and improbable , was exactly true . The publication of this piece at this time raised Mr. Savage a great number of enemies among those that were attacked by Mr. Pope , with whom he was considered as a kind of ...
Page 372
... Dunciad . It is evident , that , accord- ing to Pope's own estimate , Broome was unkindly treated . If four books could merit three hundred pounds , eight , and all the notes , equivalent at least to four , had certainly a right to more ...
... Dunciad . It is evident , that , accord- ing to Pope's own estimate , Broome was unkindly treated . If four books could merit three hundred pounds , eight , and all the notes , equivalent at least to four , had certainly a right to more ...
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