An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) - Corbyn Morris

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Translations of Horace Satire I.9 are available from Project Gutenberg as [e-text 5419] (verse translation, plain text) or [e-text 14020] (prose translation, text or html).]

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[CORBYN MORRIS] An / Essay / Towards Fixing the / True Standards / of / Wit, Humour, Raillery, / Satire, and Ridicule. / To which is Added, an / Analysis / Of the Characters of / An Humourist, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Roger / De Coverly, and Don Quixote. / Inscribed, to the Right Honorable / Robert Earl of Orford. / [rule] / By the Author of a / Letter from a By-Stander. / [rule] /--Jacta est Alea. / [double rule] / London: / Printed for J. Roberts, at the Oxford-Arms, in War- / wick-lane; and W. Bickerton, In the Temple-Ex- / change, near the Inner-Temple-Gate, Fleet-street. / M DCC XLIV. [Price 2 s.] / Collation: A, a-c, in fours; d in two; a-d, in fours; B-K in fours; L in two. A, title; verso blank; A²-d, dedication; d² erratum and advertisements; a-d⁴, Introduction; B-L², text. The first edition. A second edition was published in 1758. Colton Storm Clements Library

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