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SCGCJ.773.093
7 Dec 1773:13, 21 (419)
London. . . We hear that a new comedy, in which the
prevailing custom of duelling is placed in the highest point
of ridicule, will shortly make its appearance at Covent-
Garden Theatre, It is hoped that so well time a production
will prove no less successful than seasonable, as it
undoubtedly will, if its execution be as laudable as its
design. Ridicule, indeed, is the only salutary remedy
against absurdity, as the cure of absurdity is peculiar to
the province of the comic muse:
"Mirth, more than morals, moves the age;
Our only crowded school the stage!"
It is notorious that, within these ten years, the people
have been universally more expensive, than our fathers were
at the close of the last century. There are more equipages
kept; yet there are more [ ]; there are more diversions,
and more want; there are more fine gentlemen who keep
shops, and more bankrupts in the gazette: There are more
ladies of taste; but fewer housewives: There is more
ostentation, but less substance; more pomp, but less
hospitality; more expense, and less frugality; our public
debts are encreased, without our public credit; public
dependency, without public spirit; and public offices,
without public oeconomy. What will be the consequence of
all these things in a short time, every man of reflection
must be too sensible of!
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