The Dunciad: An Heroic Poem. In Three Books. Dublin, Printed, London, Reprinted for A. Dodd, 1728Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1728 - 51 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 4 - There motley Images her fancy strike, Figures ill pair'd, and Similies unlike. She sees a Mob of Metaphors advance, Pleas'd with the madness of the mazy dance: 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.
الصفحة 42 - As Berecynthia, while her offspring vie In homage to the mother of the sky, Surveys around her, in the blest abode...
الصفحة 28 - Ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
الصفحة 8 - To this our head like byass to the bowl, Which, as more pond'rous, made its aim more true, Obliquely wadling to the mark in view: O! ever gracious to perplex'd mankind, Still spread a healing mist before the mind; And lest w:e err by Wit's wild dancing light, Secure us kindly in our native night.
الصفحة 9 - Shakespear once a week. For thee I dim these eyes, and stuff this head, ''"' With all such reading as was never read; For thee supplying, in the worst of days, Notes to dull books, and prologues to dull plays; For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, And write about it, Goddess, and about it; So spins the silkworm small its slender store, And labours, 'till it clouds itself all o'er.
الصفحة 4 - Pleas'd with the Madness of the mazy dance: 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. Here gay Description ^Egypt glads with showers; Or gives to Zembla fruits, to Barca flowers; Glitt'ring with ice here hoary hills are seen, There painted vallies of eternal green, On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. All these and more, the cloud-compelling...