"Still spread a healing mist before the mind; / And lest we err by Wit's wild dancing light, / Secure us kindly in our native night."
The Dunciad, in Four Books.
At least 19 entries in the ESTC (1742, 1743, 1744, 1749, 1756, 1776, 1777).<br>
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<u>The Dunciad, in Four Books. Printed According to the Complete Copy Found in the Year 1742. With the Prolegomena of Scriblerus, and Notes Variorum. to Which Are Added, Several Notes Now First Publish'd, the Hypercritics of Aristarchus, and His Dissertation on the Hero of the Poem.</u> (London: Printed for M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-noster-row, 1743). [2 issues in 1743] &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T5560">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N72334">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB3331389119&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>The Dunciad in Four Books</u>, ed. Valerie Rumbold (New York: Pearson Longman, 2009). 