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Loading... The Dunciad. With Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus.by Alexander Pope
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. wikipedia "I thought," said Ayrton, turning short round upon Lamb, "that you of the Lake School did not like Pope?" --"Not like Pope! My dear sir, you must be under a mistake -- I can read him over and over for ever!" -- "Why, certainly, the Essay on Man must be allowed to be a masterpiece." -- "It may be so, but I seldom look into it." -- "Oh! then it's his Satires you admire?" -- "No, not his satires, but his friendly Epistles and his compliments." -- "Compliments! I did not know he ever made any." -- "The finest, " said Lamb, "that were ever paid by the wit of man. Each of them is worth an estate for life -- nay, is an immortality. --quoted by Hazlitt, in Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen. no reviews | add a review
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