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MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS

HIS

PROLEGOMENA and ILLUSTRATIONS

TO THE

DUNCI A D:

WITH THE

HYPERCRITICS of ARISTARCHUS.

DENNIS, Remarks on Pr. ARTHUR.

I

Cannot but think it the most reasonable thing in

the world, to diftinguith good writers, by difcou raging the bad. Nor is it an ill-natured thing, in re Fation even to the very persons upon whom the reflections are made. It is true, it may deprive them, a little the fooner, of a short profit and a tranfitory reputation; but then it may have a good effect, and oblige them (before it be too late) to decline that for which they are so very unfit, and to have recourse to Something in which they may be more fuccessful.

CHARACTER of Mr P. 1716.

THE Persons whom Boileau has attacked in his writings, have been for the most part Authors, and noft of those Authors, Poets: And the cenfures he hath paffed upon them have been confirmed by all Europe.

GILDON, Pref. to his NEW REHEARSAL.

IT is the common cry of the Poetafters of the town, and their fautors, that it is an ill-natured thing to expose the Pretenders to wit and poetry. The Judges and Magiftrates may with full as good reafon be reproached with Ill-nature for putting the Laws in execution against a Thief or Impoftor -The fame will hold in the republic of Letters, if the Critics and Judges will let every ignorant pretender to fcribbling pals on the World.

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THEOBALD, Letter to Mift, June 22. 1728.

ATTACKS may be levelled, either against Failures in Genius, or against the Pretenfions of writing without

one.

CONCANEN, Ded. to the Author of the DUNCIAD.

A Satire upon Dulness is a thing that has been used and allowed in All Ages.

Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, wicked Scribbler!

TESTIMONIES

OF

AUTHORS

CONCERNING

Our POET and his WORKS.

M. SCRIBLERUS Lectori S.

BEFORE, we the poem (drawn from the

EFORE we present thee with our exercitations

many volumes of our Adverfaria on modern Authors) we shall here, according to the laudable usage of editors, collect the various judgments of the Learned concerning our Poet: Various indeed, not only of different authors, but of the fame author at different seasons. Nor shall we gather only the Testimonies of fuch eminent Wits, as would of course descend to posterity, and confequently be read without our collection; but we shall likewife, with incredible labour, seek out for divers others, which, but for this our diligence, could never at the distance of a few months appear to the eye of the most curious. Hereby thou may'ft not only receive the delectation of Variety, but also arrive at a

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