LONDON: PRINTED BY REED AND PANDON, PATERNOSTER ROW.

CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

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THE DUNCIAD:-

Preface to first five imperfect editions of the Dunciad, &c. ........ 5

A Letter to the Publisher, occasioned by the first correct edition of

the Dunciad ............................................

Martinus Scriblerus his Prolegomena and Illustrations to the Dun-

ciad: with the Hypercritics of Aristarchus ......

BOOK THE FIRST ......

BOOK THE SECOND...........

BOOK THE THIRD ........

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BOOK THE FOURTH

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APPENDIX:

A List of Books, Papers, and Verses in which our Author was

abused, before the publication of the Dunciad; with the

true names of the Authors ............................ 154

A Parallel of the Characters of Mr. Dryden and Mr. Pope, as

drawn by certain of their Contemporaries

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Index of Persons celebrated in this Poem ................

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NOTES, TO THE DUNCIAD:-

Title, Subject, and Hero of the Poem .....

Dean Swift...........

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Bethlehem Hospital...

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The Cave of Poverty and Poetry...

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Curll and Lintot ...

Tyburn .....

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Journals, Magazines, &c. ......

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Epitaphs

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New-Year Odes ..........

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Puns upon Pope ........

Lord Mayor's Day....

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John Heywood .........

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De Foe and Prynne .....

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Laurence Eusden, Philips, and Tate.....

Dennis the Critic ....

Colley Cibber......

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Theobald's Shakespear

ear .............................. 184

Ogilby the Translator, and the Duchess of Newcastle • 185

Settle, Banks, and Broome..

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Caxton the Printer ..............

Colley Cibber's Periwig, &c. ..........

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Ridpath and Mist.

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The Geese that saved the Capitol

The Gazetteers .

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Cibber's Tragedies, &c.

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Ambrose Philips' "Thule"..

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Theobald and Ozell ..

Heideggre ......

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Index Learning .....

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Withers, Ward, Gildon, and Howard

Gaming at the Court .......

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Mrs. Needham .....

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Tenderness to Bad Writers ...

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Verbal Criticism i.....

Richard Flecknoe, or Mac Flecknoe.

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Camillo Querno...

James-Moore Smythe .....

Curll and the Court Poems.

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Corinna-Mrs. Thomas ........

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Poverty of Poets-Unpaid Tailors....

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Obscure Poets and Publishers

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Cooke and Concanen

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Good Authors

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Personal Deformity ....

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Eliza Heywood ...

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Osborne, the Bookseller

Thomas Bentley ..........

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Leonard Welsted .

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Dennis's Thunder...

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Webster and Whitfield......

Sir Richard Blackmore

Fleet Ditch ......

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Oldmixon ...............

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Dean Smedley ......

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The Devil's Last Game ...

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Aaron Hill ..

... 216

Concanen .......

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William Arnall

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Luke Milbourne

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Bishop Hoadley

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Eustace Budgell

Mrs. Centlivre ..

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Motteux ............

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Boyer and Law .....

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Morgan and Mandeville ...

Taylor, the Water Poet..

John Ward of Hackney

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Elkanah Settle ....

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Theophilus Cibber

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Giles Jacob....

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James Ralph ................

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Burnet and Ducket ..........

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Ancient Words-Sternhold and Hopkins

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Orator Henley .....

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Auditor Benson...

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Ambrose Philips ................

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Gay's Beggar's Opera ..

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Exordium to Fourth Book .....

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Dulness asleep on the Throne-Cibber ......

Act for Licensing Dramatic Performances

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Justice Page .......

The Opera ..........

Verbal Learning

Oxford University ....

Cheöps .....

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Syrian Medals .....

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Earl of Shaftesbury ..

AN ESSAY ON MAN:-

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THE DESIGN ................................................ 217

EPISTLE I. Argument_Of the Nature and State of Man with re-

spect to the Universe ........

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EPISTLE II. Argument-Of the Nature of Man with respect to

Himself as an Individual

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EPISTLE III. Argument_Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to Society.........

EPISTLE IV. Argument–Of the Nature and State of Man with

respect to Happiness .....

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