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[ Richard Cumberland's fame as playwright and novelist can hardly be said to have survived to the present day. Sheridan caricatured him as Sir Fretful Plagiary, in the “Critic.” We shall meet with him hereafter in “The Diary.”—ED.]
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[ See note ante, p. xxiv.]
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[ “Probationary Odes for the Laureateship,” a volume of lively satirical verse published after the appointment of Sir Thomas Warton to that office on the death of William Whitehead, in 1785.—ED.]
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[ See “Cecilia,” Book V. chap. 6.—ED.]
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[ In “Cecilia.”—ED.]