EBOOK FIXING THE TRUE STANDARDS OF WIT ***
Produced by David Starner, Louise Hope and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.
Series Two:
_Essays on Wit_
No. 4
[Corbyn Morris]
_An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards
of Wit, Humour, Raillery, Satire, and Ridicule_
(1744)
With an Introduction by
James L. Clifford
and
a Bibliographical Note
The Augustan Reprint Society
November, 1947
Price: $1.00
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GENERAL EDITORS
RICHARD C. BOYS, University of Michigan
EDWARD NILES HOOKER, University of California, Los Angeles
H.T. SWEDENBERG, JR., University of California, Los Angeles
ADVISORY EDITORS
EMMETT L. AVERY, State College of Washington
LOUIS I. BREDVOLD, University of Michigan
BENJAMIN BOYCE, University of Nebraska
CLEANTH BROOKS, Yale University
JAMES L. CLIFFORD, Columbia University
ARTHUR FRIEDMAN, University of Chicago
SAMUEL H. MONK, University of Minnesota
JAMES SUTHERLAND, Queen Mary College, London
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INTRODUCTION
The _Essay_ here reproduced was first advertised in the London _Daily
Advertiser_ as "this day was published" on Thursday, 17 May 1744 (The
same advertisement, except for the change of price from one shilling
to two, appeared in this paper intermittently until 14 June).
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