The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. in ..., volume 12
The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. in ..., volume 12
Arthur Murphy
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'.ftaiFit well with all the cardinal virtues ; feafon to * your tafte with wit, humour, and learning. Yoa * may like wife add, as you fee occafion, birth, po* ^ litenefs, and fuch like. « In the choice of your ingredients, be fure to have ' a particular regard to your fore part. If your ears * are fore with any frelb pulling, or your b^ ch with ' any frefh kicking, infufe a double portion of cour- * age. If you have lately betrayed your ignorance {(y * grofly as to make Ovid guilty of two falfe... quantities * in one line, dalh plentifully with learning. * If you are publicly fcnawn to be an infamous * liar, feafon very high with honour ; if you arc no- * torioully fprung from the dun^hiU, take of anceflors. * from the Englifli hiftory at the leaft half a dozeg, * Etjic de ceteris, ' When you have writ your panegyric, you may^ * read it as often as you pleafe ; out take care that no- * body hears you, an^ then be fure to— burn your ' panegyriii. * This laft operation, I own, will caufe fome pain % * but when it is confidered, that; if you do not burn it * yourfelf, - Digitized by Google 182 THB^ CO VENT-GARDEN ' yourfelf, other people will; nay, perhaps, will * treat it yet worfe, and bring it to a much more djLf* * honourable and ilinking end, a wife man will foon ' force himi'eif to the relation of putting his paa«- * gyric beyond the reach of mdlice.
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