![]() ![]() ![]() After debating whether to betake himself to the Church, or to Gaming, or to Party-writing, he raises an altar of proper books, and (making first his solemn prayer and declaration) purposes thereon to sacrifice all his unsuccessful writings. He is described pensive among his books, giving up the Cause, and apprehending the Period of her Empire. She fixes her eye on Bayes, to be the Instrument of that great event which is the Subject of the poem. Then the poem hastes into the midst of things, presenting her, on the evening of a Lord Mayor's day, revolving the long succession of her sons, and the glories past and to come. The College of the Goddess in the city, with her private academy for Poets in particular the Governors of it, and the four Cardinal Virtues. Then the original of the great Empire of Dulness, and cause of the continuance thereof. The Proposition, the Invocation, and the Inscription. ![]()
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