Dunciad, The

But to Mr. Vander Meulen, the author of an exhaustive study of Alexander Pope's "Dunciad," the Hinman remains a useful tool for peering past the ink on the page to find glimmers of what happened in long-vanished print shops.

Dunciad, the, critique on, 234, 366.

Pope’s Dunciad, the culmination of their long quarrel, has done its work well, and Cibber, now too often regarded merely as a pretentious dunce, has been relegated to an undeserved obscurity.

From this interview posterity derives from the mortified poet the full-length 534 figure of “the slashing Bentley,” in the fourth book of the Dunciad: The mighty Scholiast, whose unwearied pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton’s strains.

Dunciad, the, 39, 48, et seq.,