The preface to the second edition of Sarah Fielding's The Adventures of David Simple
| 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 | 2022-08-21T16:32:58Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T16:32:58Z |
| dc.date.created | 1744 |
| dc.identifier | ota:2280 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/2280 |
| dc.description.abstract | The adventures were written by Sarah Fielding |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 12.8 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Essays -- Great Britain -- 18th century |
| dc.title | The preface to the second edition of Sarah Fielding's The Adventures of David Simple |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 13179 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1700-1799 |
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<A FIELDING> <T DAVID SIMPLE> <E SECOND 1744> <B 0> <C 01> <P 3> ((ROMAN NUMBERING)) ((THE PREFACE.)) <L 3> AS SO MANY WORTHY PERSONS HAVE, I AM TOLD, ASCRIBED THE HONOUR OF THIS PERFORMANCE TO ME, THEY WILL NOT BE SURPRIZED AT SEEING MY NAME TO THIS PREFACE: NOR AM I VERY INSINCERE, WHEN I CALL IT AN HONOUR; FOR IF THE AUTHORS OF THE AGE ARE AMONGST THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO HAVE CONFERRED IT ON ME, I KNOW VERY FEW OF THEM TO WHOM I SHALL RETURN THE COM-+ PLIMENT / OF SUCH A SUSPICION. I COULD INDEED HAVE BEEN VERY WELL CON-+ TENT / WITH THE REPUTATION, WELL KNOWING THAT SOME WRITINGS MAY BE JUSTLY LAID TO MY CHARGE, OF A MERIT GREATLY INFERIOR TO THAT OF THE FOLLOWING WORK; HAD NOT THE IMPU-+ TATION / DIRECTLY ACCUSED ME OF FALSHOOD, IN BREAKING A PROMISE, WHICH I HAVE SOLEMNLY MADE IN PRINT, OF NEVER PUBLISHING, EVEN A PAMPHLET, WITHOUT SETTING MY NAME TO IT: A PROMISE I HAVE ALWAYS HITHERTO FAITHFULLY KEPT; AND, FOR THE SAKE OF MEN'S CHARACTERS, I WISH ALL OTHER WRITERS WERE BY LAW O . . .
