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 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T16:32:57Z |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T16:32:57Z |
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.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Legacy Collection |
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dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
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 |
dc.type | Text |
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files.count | 1 |
otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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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 . . .