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NYC.769.059
27 Jul-3 Aug 1769:1081 (1/14)
To the Printer of the Town and Country Magazine.
(King's Bench Prison.)
Sir,
. . . [22 lines of narrative]
_____O shining ruin,
Thou nurse of passions, and thou bane of virute!
O self-destroying monster, that art blind,
Yet putt'st out reason's eyes, that still should guide thee;
Then plungest down some precipice unseen,
And art no more. (From THE SIEGE OF DAMASCUS)
. . . [next column]
But to proceed, I danced, drank, gamed, and intrigued with a
spirit which increased my consequence, daily, in the eyes of
those who looked upon dancing and drinking, gaming and
gallantry, as the cardinal pleasures;
. . .[cont. through p.109, col.3]
. . . before they made their appearance. Their business
with me was to secure me for the night, in order to forward
the damnation of a new farce, in which, according to the
intelligence they had received, the author had very roughly
handled our amiable corps, and justly merited the
suppression of his pieces. As I felt myself quite
interested in what I had heard, I readily agreed___(to what
lengths will not party carry us ?) to meet them at the
Shakespear, and to sally forth with them at a proper hour to
the house. . . [A paragraph about a young lady there]
During the play, which was Jane Shore, the young lady
discovered a great deal of sensibility, by being deeply
affected while the tenderest and most pathetic scenes in it
were represented: her sensibility charmed me. . .
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