Behold the wonders of th' oblivious lake! Content, each emanation of his fires How Time himself stands still at her command, Or, wed to what he must divorce, a Muse: And navies yawn'd for orders on the main. He shows the Goddess coming in her majesty to destroy Order and Science, and to substitute the Kingdom of the Dull upon earth: how she leads captive the Sciences, and silences the Muses; and what they be who succeed in their stead.

He had often honored her with his work and so she had him "oil'd with magic juices for the course" (ln. Osborne and Curll accept the glorious strife Lost is his God, his Country, everything, Live happy both, and long promote our Arts. But soon, ah, soon, rebellion will commence, All bounteous, fragrant grains and golden showers, How parts relate to parts, or they to whole, 'Jacob, the scourge of grammar, mark with awe; Are things which Kuster, Burman, Wasse shall see;

Whales sport in woods, and dolphins in the skies: Inspired he seizes: these an altar raise; The Goddess then: 'Who best can send on high He hears loud oracles, and talks with Gods; Norton, from Daniel and Ostrœa sprung, Look'd a white lily sunk beneath a shower. Lo! There Webster! (St. James's first, for leaden Gilbert preach'd); After the other persons are disposed in their proper places of rest, the Goddess transports the King to her Temple, and there lays him to slumber with his head on her lap; a position of marvellous virtue, which causes all the visions of wild enthusiasts, projectors, politicians, inamoratos, castle-builders, chymists, and poets. And write about it, Goddess, and about it: proposed the prizes in honour of her son Achilles). In Book II, Pope builds upon this with his parade of dunces to show how Dulness is also permeating the inner circles of London and English literary society. There, stript, fair Rhetoric languish'd on the ground; Their infamy, still keep the human shape. Nor glad vile poets with true critics' gore. Her sister sends, her vot'ress from above. 'T was on the day when Thorold, rich and grave, For Pope, to sacrifice that "midmost" point to Dulness is to sacrifice all points to Dulness. As verse, or prose, infuse the drowsy God. Till Isis' elders reel, their pupils' sport, To isles of fragrance, lily-silver'd vales, Yet wrote and flounder'd on in mere despair.

Dove-like, she gathers to her wings again. And all thy yawning daughters cry encore. The sure forerunner of her gentle sway: 'These are, ah no!

When the last blaze sent Ilion to the skies. Beeves, at his touch, at once to jelly turn, Each prompt to query, answer, and debate, Something betwixt a heideggre and an owl) What mortal can resist the yawn of Gods?

It could be said that The Dunciad is the third in the Scriblerus Trilogy; which also include the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus and Peri Bathous - but then, a lot could be said about The Dunciad.

his breeches rent below,

What Gellius or Stobæus hash'd before, And hew the Block off, and get out the Man.

And solid pudding against empty praise. they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, The Mighty Mother, and her son who brings she comes! And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. Where bask on sunny banks the simple sheep, This brazen brightness to the 'Squire so dear; Make God man's image; man, the final Cause; And (last and worst) with all the cant of wit, Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern. But in her temple's last recess inclosed,

O thou! And all was hush'd, as Folly's self lay dead.

Now prostrate! A tribe with weeds and shells fantastic crown'd, And 'Coll!' Roll in her vortex, and her power confess.

How many Martials were in Pulteney lost! Where vile Mundungus trucks for viler rhymes;

Be thine, my stationer! What charms could Faction, what Ambition lull, Once Dulness has control of the interior space, be it of a person's mind or a city's intellectual heart, the spread of Dulness is quick and cascading.

Eridanus his humble fountain scorns; These Fate reserv'd to grace thy reign divine, And Quarles is saved by beauties not his own. So (famed like thee for turbulence and horns) 'But lo! The decent knight retired with sober rage, The cap and switch be sacred to His Grace;

Next, a poetess named Eliza is brought forward. The heroes sit, the vulgar form a ring; She recommends to them to find proper employment for the Indolents before mentioned, in the study of Butterflies, Shells, Birds-nests, Moss, &c., but with particular caution not to proceed beyond trifles, to any useful or extensive views of Nature, or of the Author of Nature. Guard the sure barrier between that and Sense; Knight lifts the head; for, what are crowds undone, And these to Notes are fritter'd quite away:

Half thro' the solid darkness of his soul; For writing pamphlets, and for roasting Popes; Three wicked imps of her own Grub-street choir, To this our head, like bias to the bowl, (Tho' this his son dissuades, and that his wife);

Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock,

Then thus the wonders of the deep declares.

Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Aced a paper on it and I still have no idea what it's about/what happens in it. As many quit the streams that murm'ring fall the sable throne behold They are driven off by a band of young Gentlemen returned from travel with their tutors; one of whom delivers to the Goddess, in a polite oration, an account of the whole conduct and fruits of their travels; presenting to her at the same time a young Nobleman perfectly accomplished. Smote ev'ry brain, and wither'd ev'ry bay; Mine, Goddess! Pity! Or Tyber, now no longer Roman, rolls, Full in the middle way there stood a lake, Now to pure Space lifts her ecstatic stare, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, Stood dauntless Curll! Rolli the feather to his ear conveys, Her too receive (for her my soul adores); On two unequal crutches propt he came, Obliquely waddling to the mark in view: But lick up every blockhead in the way. In naked majesty Oldmixon stands, Instant, when dipt, away they wing their flight, And here the groaning shelves Philemon bends. Gross as her sire, and as her mother grave; And turn the Council to a grammar school! This nod confirms each privilege your own. 1903.

Thus at her felt approach, and secret might, Now flames the Cid, and now Perolla burns; Whose mysteries restor'd I sing, For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, Replenish, not ingloriously, at home.' What force have pious vows! (Replied soft Annius), this our paunch before

A Wit it was, and call'd the phantom Moore. Instructive work! No merit now the dear Nonjuror claims, The rev'rend flamen in his lengthen'd dress.

And, instant, fancy feels th' imputed sense; is restor'd; Less human genius than God gives an ape, Critics like me shall make it prose again. But now (so Anne and Piety ordain)

He is described pensive among his books, giving up the Cause, and apprehending the Period of her Empire.

Dunce scorning Dunce beholds the next advance, Downward to climb, and backward to advance,

And orient Science their bright course begun: Sleep's all subduing charms who dares defy, Walker with rev'rence took, and laid aside.

'Receive, great Empress! So may the sons of sons of sons of whores

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