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The present state of wit (1711), and excerpts from The English Theophrastus; or, The manners of the age (1702)

Gay, John, 1685-1732 [Contributor]; Bond, Donald Frederic, 1898-1987 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Britton, W. Earl (Webster Earl), 1905-1995 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729 [Contributor]· 4 chapters· 13,076 words

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Membership in the Augustan Reprint Society entitles the subscriber to six publications issued each year. The annual membership fee is $2.50. Address subscriptions and communicat...

3. Part 3

* _Brutus_ for want of _Wit_, sets up for _Criticism_; yet has so much ambition to be thought a _Wit_, that he lets his Spleen prevail against Nature, and turns Poet. In this Ca...

2. Part 2

Mean time, all our unbyassed well-wishers to Learning, are in hopes, that the known Temper and Prudence of one of these Gentlemen, will hinder the other from ever lashing out in...

4. Part 4

A great facility in submitting to other People's Censure is sometimes as faulty as a great roughness in rejecting it: for there is no Composure so every way accomplisht, but wha...