The PIC Nic, [Ed. by W. Combe]. (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: fashion; lie will launch no general misanthropic censure; he will propose methods to render fashion excellent, which is already good, or at least will recommend to the notice of others, faults for which he himself sees no remedy. Any body who looks for abuse of high life will be egregiously disappointed; J hope they will be satisfied who look for amusement. I have only to add, that I am acquainted with most of fashion's gayest votaries. The fashionable gamester, lounger, beau,, jockey, hunter, shooter, author, the wife, girl,. widow, demirep or courtezan,, may thank my forbearance for not displaying all their faults.. The odds are ten to one, that I am intimately acquainted with them; and when they mention me, three to one that I am at their elbow. THE THEATRE. Multos incertos certare hanc rem vidimus Palmam Poetst comico cui deferant. A. Getlius NoEies Attica Many we've seen in doubt in this affair, And differing in opinion where to fix, On whom to give die prize as comic poet. THE WAY TO KEEP HIM,. A COMEDY, BY ARTHUR MURPHY,. ESQ. This comedy was first performed in three yts in January, 1760; and in January, VOL. II. G " it was firfl produced in five afts; the characters of Sir Bashful Constant, and Lady Constant having been interwoven into it. It might indeed be owing to the necessity of the Poet's revisal of the first three afts, in order to extend the comedy, that the whole of it has come forth in that elegant and highly polished state which it is now seen to possess. In the poet's dedication to Mrs. Abington, written in 1785, he says he has retouched the dialogue, and perhaps so reformed it, that in its present state it may be deemed less unworthy ot her acceptance. So that after this comedy was established upon the stage, and after the author ...