Mrs. Oldfield happened to be in some danger in a Gravesend boat, and when the rest of the passengers lamented their imagined approaching fate, she, with a conscious dignity, told them their deaths would be only a private loss;—"But I am a public concern."—"Dramatic Miscellanies," vol. i. p. 227.
[ [263] The bitterness of Pope's muse subsided upon no occasion, where the name of Mrs. Oldfield might be aptly introduced. Thus in the "Sober Advice from Horace," one of his inedited poems:
Engaging Oldfield! who, with grace and ease,
Could join the arts to ruin and to please.
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Typographical Changes to this volume:
pg 44 Sir Thomas Shipwith[Skipwith], had trusted
pg 103 of so grave and stanch[staunch] a Senator
pg 113 have been in our Power so throughly[thoroughly] to
pg 159 he expresly[expressly] wrote for him
pg 241 upon the Model of Monfort[Mountfort not corrected]
pg 349 The "famous Mr. Antony[Anthony] Leigh,"
pg 370 nor can their[there] be a doubt
pg 289 Added heading [Bibliography of Colley Cibber]
fn 26 two of these parts belonged to Skipwith[Shipwith]