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 N � v. Terr,e-FiIius. $ fee, aehis chief' topicks, and the greate. part o hi; he.'.,y-conl:,liments is wheel-barrowd from the l[,ne-kil. Ben oh, (heavens! who can name them in the �me day ? ) heneft lien, I fay, was himfell a bricklayer, and helpt his father-in-law to build coln's-ln.. Had he made fuch a ftecch as this, fiould conclude he had done it out of gratitude to his oI. fijend and acquaintance the trow&' But this little f;,ifire owing the fira money he e;,er m.ftcr of to the fuccefi cf a Rage play, mcm,ry of his former bcnefacqors, flou!d have gi. yen his ha:angue the dratnatick turns fi:ould have celebrated O.,qbrd for the diverting interludes in private halls; tragi-comic..i battles between reajEnand .,triflotle in her FuI:liclc fchcols; and lafl:ly an the molt excdlcnt farces lb fcequentI, and fo well lCrformt'd n her convocaton-noufe. Thi. in the neighbourhood of a Theatre, ' and as a conciuticn o a poetical lee%re, had keen Fro,. per to tte place and lhbjecq:. Here (alas!) he mght have taken rome little notice ot poor T[RIY, their !vondam I'antomime. Here ke might have proved how fir, in his hamble opinion, taking the oatha to rome Kings, in diffc.liimis tempofibre, might l:e contider'd' as a downright cotned),. Above nil; ke might here have fhewn 'the near analogy be; tween thole two top ac%rs in the Sheldon and Dru: ry-lane play-h,u?., Mr. 471liam Pink,thman, and the reverend Doqor Del .... e i both in vogue for their oddities, both fhcetious droll lver�ons, and both (when they had wherewithal} deep Gaintiers. 'There ha:t. been tbmething entertaining in But --- Oxo:ium quara$ its Oxonio, and -fuch old fluff! -.- Fie .for flame! Are there the �ublime flights, is. this the i%,'ige recem idiZlum ore of fo eminent a poet?  'Tis the common cant ��vc 7 jacobite ;:atfter ia Oxford, After hav;ng' le,l'

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