Pas. Gratitude and Public Spirit, are the two Noblest Passions, that ever warm’d the Heart of Man, or fired the Poets Imagination. They Should be the Springs of every Public Character, and are this Night of Pasquin. inspired by them he has dar’d laugh at Female Folly and to lash a Noble Vice that Lords it in Our most Polite Assemblies. For which, he who was late a Iudge and Public Censor in turn, now trembles at Your dread Tribunal. The first and last Appeal of Players, Poets, Statesmen, Fidlers, Fools, Philosophers and Kings. If, by the boldness of his Satyr, or the daring Novelty of his Plan and Fable, He has offended, He ought to meet with some degree of Candour, as his Offence was the Effect of a Noble Gratitude, and an Over-heated Zeal to Please His Noble Guests & Patrons, whom he Scorn’d to treat with Vulgar Cates Season’d and Serv’d with Flattery and Common Dramatic Art. For this boldness of his Satyr, this is his Defence— But, for his dulness, he has no Plea. If You Almighty Arbiters find him guilty of that Offence, censure him as freely as he has censured others. And, like the Roman Censor, he will cry out with Patriot Ioy, What Pity ’tis, a Blockhead can be damn’d but once, to Please the Critics.
Finis.
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WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY
University of California, Los Angeles
PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT
Where available, Project Gutenberg e-text numbers are included as links. Numbers shown in bold italics are in preparation.
| 1948 – 1949 | |
| [15.] | John Oldmixon, Reflections on Dr. Swift’s Letter toHarley . . . (1712) and A. Mainwaring’s TheBritish Academy . . . (1712). |
| [17.] | Nicholas Rowe, Some Account of the Life of Mr. WilliamShakespeare (1709). |
| 1949 – 1950 | |
| [22.] | Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and twoRambler papers (1750). |
| [23.] | John Dryden, His Majesties Declaration Defended(1681). |
| 1950 – 1951 | |
| [26.] | Charles Macklin, The Man of the World (1792). |
| 1951 – 1952 | |
| [31.] | Thomas Gray, An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard(1751); and The Eton College Manuscript. |
This gap in the sequence occurs at mid-page. | |
| 1960 – 1961 | |
| 85-6. | Essays on the Theatre from Eighteenth-CenturyPeriodicals. |
| 90. | Henry Needler, Works (1728). |
| 1961 – 1962 | |
| 93. | John Norris, Cursory Reflections Upon a Book Call’d, An EssayConcerning Human Understanding (1960) |
| 94. | An. Collins, Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653). |
| 95. | An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr.Fielding (1751). |
| 96. | Hanoverian Ballads. |
| 1962 – 1963 | |
| 97. | Myles Davies, Selections from Athenae Britannicae(1716-1719). |
| 98. | Select Hymns Taken Out of Mr. Herbert’s Temple(1697). |
| 99. | Thomas Augustine Arne, Artaxerxes (1761). |
| 100. | Simon Patrick, A Brief Account of the New Sect of LatitudeMen (1662). |
| 101-2. | Richard Hurd, Letters on Chivalry and Romance(1762). |
| 1963 – 1964 | |
| [103.] | Samuel Richardson, Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, andPostscript. |
| 104. | Thomas D’Urfey, Wonders in the Sun, or, the Kingdom of theBirds (1706). |
| 105. | Bernard Mandeville, An Enquiry into the Causes of the FrequentExecutions at Tyburn (1725). |
| 106. | Daniel Defoe, A Brief History of the Poor PalatineRefugees (1709). |
| 107-8. | John Oldmixon, An Essay on Criticism (1728). |
| 1964 – 1965 | |
| 109. | Sir William Temple, An Essay upon the Original and Nature ofGovernment (1680). |
| 110. | John Tutchin, Selected Poems (1685-1700). |
| 111. | Anonymous, Political justice. A Poem (1736). |
| 112. | Robert Dodsley, An Essay on Fable (1764). |
| 113. | T. R., An Essay Concerning Critical and Curious Learning(1680). |
| [114.] | Two Poems Against Pope: Leonard Welsted, One Epistle to Mr. A.Pope (1730); Anonymous, The Blatant Beast (1740). |