 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 σελίδες
...their account in employing them, or the men themselves, when discovered, want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupation. This it was that gave birth to the " Dunciad," and he thought it an happiness, that, by the late flood of slander on himself, he had acquired such a peculiar right over... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 σελίδες
...their account in employing them, or the men themselves, when discovered, want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupation. This it was that gave birth to the Dunciad: and he thought it a happiness, that by the late flood of slander on himself, he had acquired such a peculiar right over... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1904 - 574 σελίδες
...them, or the men themselves, when discovered, want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupation. Tms it was that gave birth to the Dunciad ; and he thought it an happiness, ih.it, by the late flood of slander on himself, he had acquired such a peculiar right over... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 σελίδες
...their account in employing them, or the men themselves, when discovered, want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupation. This it was that gave birth to The Dunciad • and he thought it an happiness that, by the late flood of slander on himself, he had acquired such a peculiar right over... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 422 σελίδες
...their account in employing them, or the men themselves, when discovered, want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupation. This it was that gave birth to ' The Dunciad,' and he thought it a happiness that, by the late flood of slander on himself, he had acquired such a peculiar right over... | |
 | George Frisbie Whicher - 1915 - 236 σελίδες
...account in employing them, or the men themselves, when discovered, would want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupation. This it was that gave birth to the ' Dunciad, ' and he thought it a happiness, that by the late flood of slander on himself, he had acquired such a peculiar right over... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 σελίδες
...their account in employing them, or the men themselves, when discovered, want courage to proceed in so ht keeps pace with keenness of feeling; that his light is not more pervading than his warmth happiness, that, by the late flood of slander on himself, he had acquired such a peculiar right over... | |
 | Dorothy Senior - 1928 - 350 σελίδες
...their account in employing them, or the men themselves, when discovered, want courage to proceed in so unlawful an occupation. This it was that gave birth to the Dunciad . . ."i The Dunciad, as it stands in the quarto edition of 1729, consists of three books only, and... | |
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... what contemptible men were the authors of it. He was not without hopes that, by manifesting the... 
