The Works of Alexander Pope: The Dunciad, in four books

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J. and P. Knapton, 1751
 

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Σελίδα 226 - Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Σελίδα 182 - Plough'd was his front with many a deep remark : His hat, which never vail'd to human pride, Walker...
Σελίδα 177 - As Fancy opens the quick springs of Sense, We ply the Memory, we load the brain, Bind rebel Wit, and double chain on chain; Confine the thought, to exercise the breath; And keep them in the pale of Words till death.
Σελίδα 155 - Polly, till then obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town ; her pictures were engraved, and...
Σελίδα 166 - Too mad for mere material chains to bind, Now to pure space lifts her ecstatic stare, Now running round the circle, finds it square.
Σελίδα 96 - Th' unconscious stream sleeps o'er thee like a lake. "Next plung'da feeble, but a desperate pack, With each a sickly brother at his back: Sons of a day! just buoyant on the flood, Then number'd with the puppies in the mud.
Σελίδα 16 - How Tragedy and Comedy embrace ; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race ; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and ocean turns to land.
Σελίδα 223 - Night primaeval and of Chaos old! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus
Σελίδα 155 - 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 of England ; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.

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