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As a sample of the invective which was occasionally poured forth on him, we will quote some lines from "The Race," a dull imitation of "The Dunciad," ascribed to one Cuthbert Shaw, and published in 1766. The Hamilton referred to is the same person to whom Colman makes allusion; he was indeed Smollett's fidus Achaies. " Next Smollet came.
With the greater cleanliness of our time, with all the additional experience of history, with the greater classical, aesthetic, and theological knowledge of our day, the sins of our poets are as much less excusable than those of Eusden, Blackmore, Cibber, and the rest, as Pope's "Dunciad" on them would be more righteously severe. Has Pope not said it already?
The two works which, out of the whole range of English literature, contain in a supreme degree those elements of power, breadth, and common sense, which lie at the root of the national genius 'Gulliver's Travels' and the 'Dunciad' both appeared during Voltaire's visit.
The middle period of his life was marked by his translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. In his third period, he wrote moral and didactic poems, like the Essay on Man, and satires, like the Dunciad. Some Poems of the First Period: Essay on Criticism and The Rape of the Lock.
"His temples, last, with poppies were o'er-spread, That nodding seemed to consecrate his head." A couplet which Pope echoes in the "Dunciad": "Shadwell nods, the poppy on his brows." A similar allusion may be found in the character of Og: "Eat opium, mingle arsenic in thy drink," etc.
In 1742 he published the fourth book of the Dunciad; to which it has with much reason been objected, that it stands in no obvious relation to the other three, but which, taken as a separate whole, is by far the most brilliant and the weightiest of his works.
First printed in the year 1739. Dr. Edward Young. Ambrose Philips, author of the Distrest Mother, &c. Edward Ward. See Dunciad, and Biographia Dramatica. Joseph Mitchell. See Biographia Dramatica. Published first in the Literary Magazine, No. iv. from July 15, to Aug. 15, 1756. This periodical work was published by Richardson, in Paternoster row, but was discontinued about two years after. Dr.
He was, if we are to give any credit to his own account or to the united testimony of all who knew him, a man of the meanest and feeblest intellect. Johnson described him as a fellow who had missed his only chance of immortality by not having been alive when the Dunciad was written. Beauclerk used his name as a proverbial expression for a bore.
This work in its full extent being now afflicted with an asthma, and finding the powers of life gradually declining he had no longer courage to undertake; but, from the materials which he had provided, he added, at Warburton's request, another book to the "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.
London Gaz. This is one of those instances of injustice and malignity which so frequently occur in the Dunciad, and which reflect more dishonour on the author than on the parties traduced.
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