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Leonard Welsted (833 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Epistle to Mr. A. Pope in 1730, and in 1732 he wrote two attacks on Pope, Of Dulness and Scandal and Of False Fame. In return, Pope satirized Welsted again

Sonnet 56 (1,796 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

line eight: × / × / × / × / × / (×) The spirit of love, with a perpetual dulness. (56.8) / = ictus, a metrically strong syllabic position. × = nonictus

John Trumbull (poet) (805 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Boy. While a tutor he wrote his first satire in verse, The Progress of Dulness (1772–1773), an attack in three poems on educational methods of his time

Nuts and Wine (1,147 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

noted that "half a dozen scintillating items ... in these days of much dulness is probably not a bad achievement", but remarked of the script by Bovill

1732 in literature (763 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Watts – A Short View of the Whole Scripture History Leonard Welsted – Of Dulness and Scandal (answer to The Dunciad) Gilbert West – Stowe Martín Sarmiento

1772 in poetry (810 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in Verse Francis Hopkinson, "Dirtilla" John Trumbull, The Progress of Dulness, published in three parts from this year to 1773 Mark Akenside, The Poems

John William Evans (Welsh politician) (277 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

'his presence at the meetings of municipal bodies would invariably banish dulness and monotony, for he was extremely humorous. His ready wit and repartee

1732 in poetry (608 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was the fourth volume (see Miscellanies 1727, 1735) Leonard Welsted, Of Dulness and Scandal Gilbert West, Stowe, anonymously published Albrecht Haller

Augustan poetry (3,431 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Dryden's poison-pen battle of MacFlecknoe. The story is that of the goddess Dulness choosing a new avatar. She settles upon one of Pope's personal enemies

Soldiers of the King (film) (689 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

flimsy stories of this character – stories which subside into horrific dulness when the actors do not exert themselves, and when the actors do put forth

1820 in poetry (1,560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Revised and Corrected, with copious explanatory notes; The Progress of Dulness; and a Collection of Poems on Various Subjects, Written Before and During

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1,516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mind, any manner of care, discontent, or thought, which causes anguish, dulness, heaviness and vexation of spirit, any ways opposite to pleasure, mirth

Princess Caprice (605 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

piece was mostly pervaded "with a kind of decorous, very accomplished dulness, which makes us sigh for a good catchy tune, however trivial." The paper

John Ozell (621 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Conversation, and Pope mentioned Ozell again in The Dunciad. In that poem, Dulness shows her champion her powers of conception and "How, with less reading

John Rich (producer) (1,845 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Dunciad Variorum of 1732, he makes John Rich the angel of the goddess Dulness: Immortal Rich! how calm he sits at ease Mid snows of paper, and fierce

Hail! Bright Cecilia (579 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Notes above the just Resemblance gave, Brisk without Lightness, without Dulness Grave. 8. Wondrous Machine! To thee the Warbling Lute, Though us'd to Conquest

Little Jack Sheppard (1,886 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Stephens and Yardley … have aimed at decorum, and succeeded in hitting dulness." The paper went so far as to write of "the vapid, wishy-washy, flatulent

Frank Harvey (playwright) (744 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Dampier's company at the Alexandra Theatre, Melbourne "... the very essence of dulness and puerility ... difficult to comprehend why a gentleman of Mr. Dampier's

William Benson (architect) (1,321 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Johnston (1587–1641); in the elaborate procession attending the Goddess Dulness, Benson appeared: "On two unequal crutches propt he came, Milton's on this

The Encyclopedia of the Dead (1,698 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Harold (1999). "The 'Garbage Heap' of Memory: At Play in Pope's Archives of Dulness". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 33 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1353/ecs.1999.0060.

Abel Boyer (1,713 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in The Dunciad (book ii. 413), where, under the soporific influence of Dulness, "Boyer the state, and Law the stage gave o'er" his crime, according to

Augustan literature (10,051 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and specific opprobrium in The Dunciad. The story is that of the goddess Dulness choosing a new Avatar. She settles upon one of Pope's personal enemies

Thomas Newcomb (923 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

female writers. The image of the goddess Oblivion may have influenced "Dulness" in Alexander Pope's Dunciad; the resemblance was pointed out by John Nichols

The Hilliad (1,939 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

into "th' INSPECTOR" (The Hilliad line 58). She is reminiscent of Pope's Dulness character, although she also has traits deriving from Smart's "Mrs Midnight"

Confessio Amantis (3,749 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

century, the Confessio was regarded by some as an established "monument of dulness and pedantry" (quoted by Coffman 1945:52). While Macaulay (1901:x-xxi,

The Covent-Garden Journal (3,115 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

summarised these complaints in saying, "The whole Book is a Heap of sad Stuff, Dulness, and Nonsense; that it contains no Wit, Humour, Knowledge of human Nature

James Charles Mathew (1,464 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

over hasty in speech, and he showed himself too impatient of slowness and dulness. These defects, however, wore away, and he became eventually the best nisi

Richard Wroughton (1,885 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and, though he rarely reached greatness, seldom sank into insipidity or dulness. He was always perfect in his parts, indefatigable in industry, and wholly

Shakespeare Ladies Club (1,698 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

see the Lamp of Science shine once more; To see the Reign of Farce and Dulness end, And Albion’s noble Fair to Shakespear’s Sense attend. ‘Twas this gave

Learned pig (2,665 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

perverted things, All freaks of nature, all Promethean thoughts Of man, his dulness, madness, and their feats All jumbled up together, to compose A Parliament

Lichfield (8,315 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

painted a shiny brown, and of no great merit of design, fills out the vacant dulness of the little square in much the same way as his massive personality occupies—with

Colley Cibber (7,108 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

transformed into the demigod of stupidity, the true son of the goddess Dulness. Apart from the personal quarrel, Pope had reasons of literary appropriateness

The Beauty Stone (4,555 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

audience." He said of Carr and Pinero, "I am sure that the indisputable dulness of their Beauty Stone comes, mainly, from their pseudo-archaic manner."

Samkhyakarika (5,419 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sattva, tamas and rajas, respectively correspond to pleasure, pain and dulness, mutually domineer, produce each other, rest on each other, always reciprocally

River Loddon (5,005 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

embowering woods By darksome brook to muse, and there forget The solemn dulness of the tedious world, While Fancy grasps the visionary fair: And now no

Restoration literature (7,966 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and American Literature, dismissed the tragedy as being of "a level of dulness and lubricity never surpassed before or since". Today, the Restoration

George Ridpath (1,885 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

God for the Trinity in Unity. Alexander Pope wrote (Dunciad, i. 208): To Dulness Ridpath is as dear as Mist. According to Wodrow, the dedication to the

Rambles in Germany and Italy (6,874 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

[Florence's] society & health – but no adjuncts ... gild the quiet hours & dulness [sic] creeps over my intellect". Despite this lethargy she managed to publish

American and British English spelling differences (12,663 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

always spelled with ll in American usage. The former British spellings dulness, instal, and fulness are now quite rare. The Scottish tolbooth is cognate

William Noyes (priest) (2,612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

master. Under this hard master, though he was well nigh discouraged by the Dulness which he apprehended in his own capacity, yet the consideration of his

Thomas Eyre Macklin (8,870 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ratios ending in a quadrafacial pyramid of correct proportions. The deadly dulness of the ordinary obelisk has been got rid of by the introduction of a collar

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (11,938 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

world, published in 1748, and is quick to describe the rest as "heaps of dulness". Nevertheless, his diary shows that he was familiar with these "deadly