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... Dunciad . In the following year ( 1728 ) he began to put Atterbury's advice in practice , and showed his satirical powers by publishing The Dunciad , one of his greatest and most elaborate perform- ances , in which he endeavoured to ...
... Dunciad . In the following year ( 1728 ) he began to put Atterbury's advice in practice , and showed his satirical powers by publishing The Dunciad , one of his greatest and most elaborate perform- ances , in which he endeavoured to ...
Page 197
... Dunciad , in which he degraded Theobald from his painful pre - eminence , and enthroned Cibber in his stead . Unhappily the two heroes were of opposite characters , and Pope was unwilling to lose what he had already written ; he has ...
... Dunciad , in which he degraded Theobald from his painful pre - eminence , and enthroned Cibber in his stead . Unhappily the two heroes were of opposite characters , and Pope was unwilling to lose what he had already written ; he has ...
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... Dunciad the hint is confessedly taken from Dryden's Mac Flecknoe ; but the plan is so enlarged and diversified as justly to claim the praise of an original , and affords perhaps the best specimen that has yet appeared of personal satire ...
... Dunciad the hint is confessedly taken from Dryden's Mac Flecknoe ; but the plan is so enlarged and diversified as justly to claim the praise of an original , and affords perhaps the best specimen that has yet appeared of personal satire ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
JOHN GAY 16881732 | 35 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
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