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 | 2019-07-04T11:05:58Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T11:05:58Z |
| dc.date.created | 1742 |
| dc.identifier | ota:2279 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2279 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/2279 |
| 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 |
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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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| 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 . . .
