Essays on Wit No. 2 by Joseph Warton;Richard Flecknoe
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VII. A Register of Books and Pamphlets published.
WITH A TABLE of CONTENTS to each Month. ALSO ALPHABETICAL INDEXES of the NAMES of Persons mention'd and Things treated of throughout the Whole. VOL. II. _Collected chiefly from the_ Public Papers _by_ SILVANUS URBAN. _Prodesse & delettare._ [Illustration] _E Pluribus Unum_. _LONDON_, Printed and Sold at ST JOHN'S GATE; by F. JEFFERIES in _Ludgate-street,_ and by most Booksellers in Town and Country. * * * * * OF WIT _WIT_ in K. _Charles_ IId's Reign, seem'd to be the Fashion of the Times; in the next Reign it gave way to Politicks and Religion; while K. _William_ was on the Throne, it reviv'd under the Protection of Lord _Somers_ and some other Nobleman, and then those Geniuses received that Tincture of Elegance and Politeness which afterwards made such a Figure in the _Tatlers_, _Spectators_, &c. thro' the greatest Part of the Reign of Q. _Anne_: But since it has broke out |
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