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PC.773.145
22-29 Nov 1773:1801, 1802 (359)
From the Town and Country Magazine. A New Character, by No
Oddity.
. . . [1 1/3 column essay / satirical "self-portrait" of a
fashionable gentleman. In narrative, tell his daily
routine:]
My manners are completely fashionable. I rise at one;
breakfast by two; dress by three; dine by four; stick to my
bottle till six; assist at the play till ten; sup by twelve;
and go to bed by two. There is nothing odd in all this.
In my reading I am somewhat nice. I neither read novels
or poems, magazines nor news papers; divinity, politics,
history, geography, poetry, plays: --what the devil then do
you read, perhaps you will say? The answer is ready--I
never read at all. Still no oddity, I insist upon it, for I
have as pretty a library as any student in all the inns of
court. . .
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