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 | 2019-07-04T11:05:58Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T11:05:58Z |
| dc.date.created | 1744 |
| dc.identifier | ota:2280 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2280 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/2280 |
| 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 | 19558 |
| files.count | 2 |
| 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 . . .
