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4 Words to use with dunces
It remained for you to be the first Holiday to wear a dunce cap.
When that eminent satyrist in his second Book, line 270, represents the Dunces diving for the Prize of Dulness, he in a particular manner dignifies Oldmixon, for he makes him climb a lighter, that by leaping from it, he may sink the deeper in the mud.
DUN'CIAD ("the dunce epic"), a satire by Alexander Popewritten to revenge himself upon his literary enemies.
" Again, p. 14 "Dryden condemn, who taught men how to make, Of dunces wits, an angel of a rake.