John
xi. 49.
| [No. 208] | Thursday, October 1, 1711 | Addison |
—Veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ.
Ov.[1]
I have several Letters of People of good Sense, who lament the Depravity or Poverty of Taste the Town is fallen into with relation to Plays and publick Spectacles. A Lady in particular observes, that there is such a Levity in the Minds of her own Sex, that they seldom attend any thing but Impertinences. It is indeed prodigious to observe how little Notice is taken of the most exalted Parts of the best Tragedies in