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PG-P.750.052
26 Jul 1750:11,12 (1128)
From The Fool. No. 649. [Essay on pleasure] . . . [1 1/2
columns]
Our forefathers could be content with two or three hours
recreation, when the business of the day was over; but their
wiser offspring scorn to be so stinted. We must, forsooth,
begin the day with diversions: We cannot breakfast without
a concert of musick; we fly from one entertainment to
another, shifting the scenes of folly, running from routs to
drums, from the bear-garden to the ball or masquerade, and
closing the day in superlative madness at the gaming-table.
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