ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the extracts from The Modern Dunciad. Mr Thomas Agg has long been the hired scribe of a deceased publication, called ‘Town Talk’. He writes under the assumed names of Humphrey Hedgehog, and Jeremiah Juvenal; and has recently adopted that of Peter Pindar, hoping to confound his spurious trash with the productions of Dr Walcot. The original Peter is too often profane, but never dull. One of Mr Agg’s latest productions is a poem called ‘Waterloo’, which he modestly informs us, is ‘full of blunders’; in consideration of which he charges only the trifling sum of twenty-five shillings; being twenty for the paper, and five for the poetry. During the French Revolution, a law passed, decreeing the sleep of death to be eternal. Fanatics of every variety of creed, hating, persecuting, and reviling each other, have held a temporary truce, and welcomed into their ranks the notoriously profligate and profane to make head against their common enemy.
