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NYM(L.779.011
26 Nov 1779:412 (13)
From the Westminster Magazine. The Character, with a short
biographical account of Joseph the Second, present Emperor
of Germany. . . [2 col. including] This character of him was
so generally known, even in the short time he staid in
France, that at the theatre one night when Oedipus was
acted, and he was present, when Jocasta, speaking to her son
of the journey of Laius, thus describes him,--"Ce roi, plus
grand que sa fortune. . . [6 more lines about the love of
his people for him] the whole audience burst forth in one
shout of applause, directed to the Emperor, and which was
several times repeated. . . [in col.2] There was a
magnanimity in this sentence, that must stir the heart of a
liberal reader, like the sound of a trumpet.
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