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 JohnFalstaff, Sir Roger
De Coverly, and Don Quixote.
Inscribed to the Right Honorable
Robert Earl of Orford.

By the Author of a
LETTER from a BY-STANDER.

---- Jacta est Alea.

LONDON:
Printed for J. Roberts, at the Oxford-Arms, in Warwick-
lane; and W. Bickerton, in the Temple-Exchange,
near the Inner-Temple-Gate, Fleet-Street.
M dcc xliv.  [Price 2s.]

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