Characters of the Times; or, an account of the writings, characters, &c. of feveral gentlemen libelled by S-and P, in a late Mifcellany. Octavo, 1728.

Remarks on Mr. Pope's Rape of the Lock, in letters to a friend. By Mr Dennis; written in 1724, though not printed till 1728, octavo.

Verfes, Letters, Effays, or Advertisements, in the public Prints.

British Journal, Nov. 25, 1727. A Letter on Swift and Pope's Mifcellanies. [Writ by M. Concanen]

Daily Journal, March 18, 1728. A Letter by Philomauri. James-Moore Smith.

Id. March 29. A Letter about Therfites; accufing the author of difaffection to the Government. By JamesMoore Smith.

Mift's Weekly Journal, March 30. An Effay on the Arts of a Poet's finking in reputation; or, a Supplement to the Art of Sinking in Poetry. [Suppofed by Mr. Theobald.]

Daily Journal, April 3. A Letter under the name of Philo-ditto. By James-Moore Smith.

Flying-Poft, April 4. A Letter against Gulliver and Mr. P. By Mr. Oldmixon.]

Daily Journal, April 5. An Auction of Goods at Twickenham. By James-Moore Smith.

The Flying Poft, April 6. A Fragment of a Treatise upon Swift and Pope By Mr. Oldmixon.

Daily Journal, April 8. Advertisement by James-Moore Smith.

The Senator, April 9. On the fame, By Edward Roome. Flying Poft, April 13. Verfes against Dr. Swift, and against Mr. P-'s Homer. By J. Oldmixon.

Daily Journal, April 23. Letter about the translation of the character of Therfites in Homer. By Thomas Cooke, &c.

Mift's Weekly Journal, April 27. A Letter of Lewis Theobald.

Daily Journal, May 11. A Letter againft Mr. P. at large. Anon. [John Dennis.]

All these were afterwards reprinted in a pamphlet, entituled, A Collection of all the Verses, Eflays, Letters, and Advertisements occafioned by Mr. Pope and Swift's Mifcellanies, prefaced by Concanen, Anonymous, octavo, and printed for A. Moore, 1728, price 1 s. Others of an elder date, having lain as wafte Paper many years, were, upon the publication of the Dunciad, brought out, and their Authors betrayed by the mercenary Bookfellers (in hope of fome poffibility of vending a few) by advertising them in this manner" The Confederates, a farce. By Capt. Breval (for which he was put into the Dunciad.) "An Epilogue to Powel's Puppet-show. By Col. Ducket "(for which he is put into the Dunciad.) Effays, &c. By "Sir Richard Blackmore. (N. B. It was for a paffage of "this book that Sir Richard was put into the Dunciad.)” And fo of others.

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After the Dunciad, 1728.

An Effay on the Dunciad, Octavo, printed for J. Roberts. [In this book, p. 9. it was formally declared, "That the complaint of the aforefaid Libels and Adver"tisements was forged and untrue; that all mouths had "been filent, except in Mr. Pope's praife; and nothing against him published, but by Mr. Theobald."]

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Sawney, in blank verfe, occafioned by the Dunciad ; with a Critique on that poem. By J. Ralph [a perfon never mentioned in it at first, but inserted after] printed for J. Roberts, octavo.

A complete Key to the Dunciad. By E. Curl, 12mo. price 6 d.

A fecond and third edition of the fame, with additions,

12 mo

The Popiad. By E. Curl, extracted from J. Dennis, Sir Richard Blackmore, &c. 12mo price 6 d.

The Curliad. By the fame E. Curl.

The Female Dunciad. Collected by the fame Mr. Curl.

12mo. price 6 d. With the Metamorphofis of P: into a ftinging Nettle. By Mr. Foxton, 12mo.

The Metamorphofis of Scriblerus into Snarlerus. By J. Smedley, printed for A. Moore, folio, price 6 d.

The Dunciad diffected. By Curl and Mrs. Thomas,

12mo.

An Effay on the Tafte and Writings of the present times. Said to be writ by a gentleman of C. C. C. Öxon, printed for J. Roberts, octavo.

The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric, partly taken from Bouhours with new Reflections, &c. By John Oldmixon, octavo.

Remarks on the Dunciad. By Mr. Dennis, dedicated to Theobald, octavo.

A Supplement to the Profund. Anon. by Matthew Con canen, octavo.

Mift's Weekly Journal, June 8. A long letter, figned W. A. Writ by fome or other of the Club of Theobald, Dennis, Moore, Concanen, Cooke, who for fome time held conftant weekly meetings for thefe kind of performances.

Daily Journal, June 11. A Letter figned Philfocriblerus, on the name of Pope-Letter to Mr. Theobald, in verfe, fign'd B. M. [Bezaleel Morris] against Mr. P. Many other little epigrams about this time in the fame papers, by James Moore, and others.

Mift's Journal, June 22. A Letter by Lewis Theobald, Flying Poft, August 8. Letter on Pope and Swift.

Daily Journal, Auguft 8. Letter charging the Author of the Dunciad with Treason.

Durgen; a plain fatire on a pompous fatirift. By Edward Ward, with a little of James Moore.

Apollo's Maggot in his Cups. By E. Ward. Gulliveriana fecunda. Being a Collection of many of the Libels in the News-papers, like the former Volume, under the fame title, by Smedley. Advertised in the Craftfman, Nov. 9, 1728, with this remarkable promife, that, VOL. V.

any thing which any body should send as Mr. Pope's or Dr. Swift's, fhould be inferted and published as "theirs."

Pope Alexander's fupremacy and infallibility examined, Wr. By George Ducket, and John Dennis, quarto.

Dean Jonathan's Paraphrase on the iyth chapter of Genefis. Writ by E. Roome, folio, 1729.

Labeo. A paper of verfes by Leonard Welfted, which after came into One Epifle, and was published by James Moore, quarto, 1730. Another part of it came out in Welfted's own name, under the just title of Dulness and Scandal, folio, 1731.

There have been fince published

Verses on the Imitator of Horace. By a Lady [or be tween a Lady, a Lord, and a Court-'Squire.] Printed for J. Roberts, folio.

An Epiftle from a Nobleman to a Doctor of Divinity, from Hampton-court [Lord H-y.] Printed for J. Ro berts alfo, folio.

A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope. Printed for W. Lewis in Covent-garden, octavo.

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ADVERTISEMENT

To the FIRST EDITION with Notes, in Quarto, 1729.

T will be fufficient to fay of this edition, that the reader has here a much more correct and complete copy of the DUNCIAD, than has hitherto appeared I cannot anfwer but fome mistakes may have flipt into it, but a vast number of others will be prevented by the names being now not only fet at length, but juftified by the authorities and reafons given. I make no doubt, the author's own motive to use real rather than feign'd names, was his care to preserve the innocent from any falfe application; whereas in the former editions, which had no more than the initial letters, he was made, by keys printed here, to hurt the inoffenfive; and (what was worse) to abuse his friends, by an impreffion at Dublin.

The commentary which attends this poem was fent me from several hands, and confequently must be unequally written; yet will have one advantage over most commentaries, that it is not made upon conjectures, or at a remote distance of time: And the reader cannot but derive one pleasure from the very Obfcurity of the perfons it treats of, that it partakes of the nature of a Secret, which most people love to be let into, tho' the men or the things be ever fo inconfiderable or trivial.

Of the Perfons it was judg'd proper to give some account For fince it is only in this monument that they muft expect to furvive (and here furvive they will, as long as the English tongue fhall remain fuch as it was in the reigns of Queen ANNE and King GEORGE,) it feem'd but humanity to bestow a word or two upon each, juft to tell what he was, what he writ, when he liv'd, and when he

died.