text:  Yet a hundred years and more after the DUNCIAD a critic may wish that the matter had been a little more diligently moulded with more consideration of readers to come--that there had been less of mere names--that every Gyas and Cloanthus had somewhat unfolded his own individuality upon the stage--had been his own commentary--had by a word or two painted himself to everlasting posterity in hue shape and gesture as he stood before the contemporary eye