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Now night descending, the proud scene was o’er,
But lived in Settle’s numbers one day more.

The Dunciad. Book i. Line 89.

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While pensive poets painful vigils keep,
Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep.

The Dunciad. Book i. Line 93.

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Next o’er his books his eyes begin to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole.

The Dunciad. Book i. Line 127.

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Or where the pictures for the page atone,
And Quarles is sav’d by beauties not his own.

The Dunciad. Book i. Line 139.

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How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail.

The Dunciad. Book i. Line 279.

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And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.

The Dunciad. Book ii. Line 34.

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Another, yet the same. 1

The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 90.

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Till Peter’s keys some christen’d Jove adorn,
And Pan to Moses lends his pagan horn.

The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 109.

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All crowd, who foremost shall be damn’d to fame. 2

The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 158.

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Silence, ye wolves! while Ralph to Cynthia howls,
And makes night hideous; 3 —answer him, ye owls!

The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 165.

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And proud his mistress’ order to perform,
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. 4

The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 263.

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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. 5

The Dunciad. Book iv. Line 90.

Note 1.
Another, yet the same.—Thomas Tickell: From a Lady in England. Samuel Johnson: Life of Dryden. Darwin: Botanic Garden, part i. canto iv. line 380. William Wordsworth: The Excursion, Book ix. Sir Walter Scott: The Abbot, chap. i. Horace: carmen secundum, line 10. [back]

Note 2.
May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,
And glorify what else is damn’d to fame.
Richard Savage: Character of Foster. [back]

Note 3.
See Shakespeare, Hamlet, Quotation 53. [back]

Note 4.
See Addison, Quotation 21. [back]

Note 5.
See Shakespeare, King Henry V, Quotation 31.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.—Samuel Johnson (Boswell’s Life): vol. ii. ch. i.

A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge.—William Cowper: Conversation, line 298.

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.—Sir Walter Scott: Life of Napoleon.

He [Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.—Thomas B. Macaulay: Review of Aikin’s Life of Addison.

Temple was a man of the world among men of letters, a man of letters among men of the world.—Thomas B. Macaulay: Review of Life and Writings of Sir William Temple.

Greswell in his “Memoirs of Politian” says that Sannazarius himself, inscribing to this lady [Cassandra Marchesia] an edition of his Italian Poems, terms her “delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima” (most learned of the fair; fairest of the learned).

Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur (Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish).—Quintilian, x. 7. 22. [back]

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