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A letter to a noble lord, to whom it belongs : occasioned by a representation at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, of a farce, called Miss Lucy in town

 
dc.contributor Farringdon, Michael Department of Computer Science, University College of Swansea
dc.contributor.author Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754
dc.coverage.placeName London
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dc.date.created 1742
dc.identifier ota:2279
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2279
dc.description.abstract Mode of access: Online. OTA website Publication based on this text: A computer-aided study of the prose style of Henry Fielding and its support for his translation of The military history of Charles XII / Michael Farringdon, Jill Farringdon. -- p. 95-105. In Advances in computer-aided literary and linguistic research : proceedings of the fifth international symposium on computers in literary and linguistic research held at the University of Aston in Birmingham, UK from 3-7 April 1978 / edited with an introduction by D.E. Ager, F.E. Knowles, Joan Smith. -- Aston : University of Aston, Department of Modern Languages, 1979. -- ISBN 0-903807-64-5.
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dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.subject.lcsh Letters -- Great Britain -- 18th century
dc.title A letter to a noble lord, to whom it belongs : occasioned by a representation at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, of a farce, called Miss Lucy in town
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<A QFIELDING>
<T NOBLE LORD>
<E 1742>
((A
LETTER
TO A
NOBLE LORD,
TO WHOM ALONE IT BELONGS.
OCCASIONED BY A REPRESENTATION AT THE
THEATRE ROYAL IN DRURY-LANE,
OF A FARCE, CALLED MISS LUCY IN
TOWN.
SUCCESSIT VETUS HIS COMAEDIA, NON SINE MULTA
LAUDE, SED IN VITIUM LIBERTAS EXCIDIT, ET VIRA
DIGNAM LEGE REGI.
HOR. DE ARTE POET.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR T. COOPER, AT THE GLOBE IN
PATER-NOSTER-ROW.
MDCCXLII.))
<P 1>
((A
LETTER
TO A
NOBLE LORD, ETC.
MY LORD,))
<L 6>
I AM INDUCED TO THE LIBERTY OF
THIS ADDRESS, ON HAVING LATELY
BEEN AT THE REPRESENTATION OF
A FARCE, CALLED MISS LUCY IN
TOWN, SUPPOSED TO BE WROTE BY
MR((.)) FIELDING. AS TO THE WIT OR HUMOUR
OF THE PIECE, I AM ENTIRELY SILENT, BUT CON-+
GRATULATE / THE POET ON HIS HAPPY GENIUS;
WHICH THO' THE LEGISLATURE SEVERELY CHECK'D
ON ITS DARING TO SUCCEED IN A REPRESENTA-+
TION / ON THE PRINCIPLE OF LIBERTY, PASQUIN;
<P 2>
YET IT NOW, LIKE A PHOENIX, RISES OUT OF ITS
OWN ASHES, AND CONVINCES THE WORLD, THAT
IT IS NOT CONFINED TO THE LEWDNESS O . . .
										

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