The Works of Richard Savage ...: With An Account of the Life And Writings of the Author
The Works of Richard Savage ...: With An Account of the Life And Writings of the Author
Savage Richard
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A TRAGEDY. ACTED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL IN DRURY.LANE, IN THE YEAR 1724, BY HIS MAJESTY'S SERVANTS. Obfequium amicos, Veritas odium, pant ! TBEENT. O foeliz hominum grenus ! Si veftros animos amor, Quo caelum rcgitur, regat. T O HERBERT TRYST, ESQ^ OF THE CITY OF HEREFORD. SIR, 1 HAVE been told, Vis a cuftom to afk permiflion for fuch kind of addrefles; but there is fomething fo very mean in this civility, to afk your pardon for ne- glefting it, were to deferve your in- dignation. If merit ought ...to be preferred to what the world calls greatnefs ; if a fenfe of paft favours Ihould be confidered, be- fore future views; you. Sir, have the jufteft title to this Dedication from me, were DEDICATION. were the play a performance more worthy your acceptance. Had other authors the knowledge and experience of your virtues that I have, I Ihould find many rivals, when I beg leave to fubfcribe myfelf, S I R, Your devoted. Humble fervant, Richard Savage. ADVERTISEMENT. X HE importunity of the Publilhcr being very preffing, I omit the Preface, which T in- tended ; wherein I propofed, by way of Effay, A Discourse on Tragedy : the fubjeft be- ing too copious to treat of, in this fhort time, I defer it, either to publifh it fingle, or to join it with fome other work.
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