Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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... 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 towns ...
... 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 towns ...
Page 266
... Dunciad . ' Pope appears by this narrative to have contemplated his victory over the Dunces with great exultation ; and such was his delight in the tumult which he had raised , that for a while his natural sensibility was suspended ...
... Dunciad . ' Pope appears by this narrative to have contemplated his victory over the Dunces with great exultation ; and such was his delight in the tumult which he had raised , that for a while his natural sensibility was suspended ...
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... Dunciad , of which the design is to ridicule such studies as are either hopeless or useless , as either pursue what is unattainable , or what , if it be attained , is of no use . When this book was printed ( 1742 ) the laurel had been ...
... Dunciad , of which the design is to ridicule such studies as are either hopeless or useless , as either pursue what is unattainable , or what , if it be attained , is of no use . When this book was printed ( 1742 ) the laurel had been ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected expence faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination judgement kind King known labour Lady learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax Lyttelton mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers occasion once opinion Orrery passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed publick published Queen reader reason received reputation resentment satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel unkle verses virtue Whigs Winchester College write written wrote Young