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Excerpt from The Modern Dunciad, Virgil in London and Other Poems
The Modern Dunciad, Virgil in London, and The Times, are again presented to the public, with such revision as the authors most careful attention could bestow upon them.
Their original reception was highly gratifying. They had the good fortune to be approved by many of the best judges, and censured by some of the worst.
An extensive sale justified the favourable opinion of the critics, and afforded the author an opportunity in subsequent editions, of showing the dunces how little he was moved by their abuse, and how much he despised it.
From the publication of this volume arise some mournful recollections. Many of those who cheered him in his pursuit of the divine art of poesy, "are gathered to that house where none have saluted, and none have replied."
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