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Will "The Dunciad" keep one dunce from scribbling, or "Le Tartufe" elevate a single ecclesiastic? As well expect "long firms" to run short, and the moths to avoid the footlights, and the fool to cease from the land. "How gay they were, and how luxurious, and how important in their little day!
Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the Dunciad. Ah, Sir, hadst THOU lived in those days! It is not worth while 'being a dunce now, when there are no wits. Bickerstaff observed, as a peculiar circumstance, that Pope's fame was higher when he was alive than it was then.
After having remarked what is false in this dedication, it is proper that I observe the impartiality which I recommend, by declaring what Savage asserted that the account of the circumstances which attended the publication of the "Dunciad," however strange and improbable, was exactly true. The publication of this piece at this time raised Mr.
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 their names as was necessary to this design. "On the 12th of March, 1729, at St.
See ante, ii. 124, and iv. 238 for Johnson's opinion of Priestley. Dunciad, i. 279. See post, v. 453. It was given to the College by Sir William Scott, and it is a mezzotinto from Opie's portrait. It has been reproduced for this work, and will be found facing page 244 of volume iii. Scott's inscription on the back of the frame is given on page 245, note 3, of the same volume.
Pope calls it 'a marvellous line, and thus introduces it in The Dunciad, first edition, iii. 271: 'For works like these let deathless Journals tell, "None but thyself can be thy parallel." See post, Boswell's letter of Aug. 24, 1780, and Johnson's letter of Dec. 7, 1782. Boswell, on his way to Scotland, wrote to Temple from this house: 'I am now at Southill, to which place Mr.
You, sir, I am sure, must particularly admire him as an excellent satirist; his "Absalom and Achitophel" is a masterpiece in that way of writing, and his "Mac Flecno" is, I think, inferior to it in nothing but the meanness of the subject. Boileau. Did not you take the model of your "Dunciad" from the latter of those very ingenious satires? Pope.
Pope's old enemy Dennis, was caricatured in it as Sir Tremendous; but it had also the effect of adding another and abler foe to the list of his opponents, the player and manager, Colley Cibber, whose open ridicule of a part of this ill-judged jeu d'esprit began the feud which ultimately secured for him the supreme honors of the "Dunciad."
In 1726, "Gulliver's Travels" saw the light, and in 1727 were issued those joint volumes of "Miscellanies" which contained the "Treatise on the Bathos," a prose satire, to be supplanted in brief space by the terrible "Dunciad."
But a statement of high moral purpose from the author of "The Dunciad" was almost inevitably the stalking-horse of an unworthy action. Mr. Pope's reasons, real and professed, for giving Mrs.
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