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WR.733.037
10 Dec 1733:11 (115)
If the following essay finds acceptance with the public, all
the praise thereof is due to a very ingenious and polite
gentleman, one of our readers; at whose request it is now
re-printed, and for whose judgment in the choice of subjects
we have the highest esteem.
From the London Magazine for August 1733. Wrong Turn of the
English Munificence.
. . . essays . . . [on] love of the muses [then lists and
describes extravagances: horse-racing . . . gaming]
I am far from being an enemy to musick: I even think it
is a science peculiarly necessary amongst us, to soften our
rugged genius, and prepare the way to politeness. But even
this may be encouraged with too great profusion, and we may
become dupes to sounds, to the prejudice of our
understandings : I must needs say we are too extravagant in
our importations of Italian air, and the other courts of
Europe are serv'd full as well, on much easier terms . . .
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