Illustrations to Vol. II. 1. The Dunciad-Frontispiece. PAGE 2. Bust of Pope-Title Page. 3. Facsimile of the Frontispiece to the Dunciad, A.D. 1729 4. Effigies of Pope Alexander and his man William.. 5. Portrait of Gabriel Cibber 6. View of Tyburn Gate 7. Portrait of Blackmore S. Portrait of Fletcher 9. Portrait of Quarles 10. Portrait of Shadwell 4 17 55 56 59 61 62 67 11. "Roused by the light, old Dulness heaved the head," &c. ....to face 68 12. Portrait of Colley Cibber 13. The Struggle of the Booksellers.. 14. Curll tossed in a blanket by the Westminster Scholars. 15. Portrait of the Rev. George Whitfield 16. Fleet Ditch.. 17. The Clerks reading the works of the two voluminous writers 18. Portrait of Mrs. Centlivre 71 79 81 86 88 94 95 19. Portrait of Daniel Defoe 96 20. View of Old Bedlam 98 21. King Cibber meeting Settle on the banks of Lethe 26. "She mounts the throne: her head a cloud conceal'd," &c. ..to face 121 27. The Geniuses of the Schools 28. Young Gentlemen returned from travel the Queen 35. "Observe how system into system runs" 251 36. "Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind," &c.. 37. "From burning suns, when livid deaths descend". to face 253 255 38. "The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine " 257 39. "Love, Hope, and Joy, fair Pleasure's smiling train," &c. 40. "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien," &c. 41. "Behold the child, by nature's kindly law," &c. 42. "Who taught the nations," &c. 43. "Man walk'd with beast, joint tenant of the shade" 45. "Next his grim idol smear'd with human blood”. 266 270 to face 271 277 279 to face 280 282 286 293 ..to face 301 THE DUNCIAD, IN FOUR BOOKS; WITH THE PROLEGOMENA OF SCRIBLERUS, AND NOTES VARIORUM. [The circumstances connected with the composition and publication of this most elaborate of Pope's satires have already been related in the sketch of the poet's life. In the edition of 1735 (Poet. Works, vol. ii.), Pope transferred the whole of the notes to the end of the volume. If this was deemed necessary, though but in one impression, to free the ample quarto pages, it is certainly more requisite in editions of lesser size, in which the notes overflow from one page to another, and perplex instead of illustrating the text. Indeed, in most of the popular editions, by much the larger proportion of the notes are altogether omitted. We have to some extent adopted the plan sanctioned in one instance by the poet himself. We have detached the more general and lengthy annotations—such as could best bear transplanting (a few are better rooted out), and have printed them at the end of the poem, with the verses to which they refer, and with a title prefixed to each. In a letter to Swift, Pope has described the nature and object of the "Notes Variorum" with which the first complete edition of the Dunciad was accompanied. "I desire you," he says, 66 to read over the text and make a few (notes) in any way you like best, whether dry raillery upon the style and way of commenting of trivial critics; or humorous, upon the authors of the poem; or historical, of persons, places, times; or explanatory; or collecting the parallel passages of the ancients." Warburton states that Swift complied with his friend's request, but a comparison of editions subsequent to that of 1729 shows that he did little. The other associates of the Scriblerus Club-Arbuthnot and Gay, with the occasional help of Cleland-were contributors. The various learning and antiquarian lore of Arbuthnot must have been invaluable, but the assistance of all these friendly commentators was of very small amount, we suspect, compared with the 24 |
