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Morris, Corbyn, -1779

"An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)"


BEAUTY is the delightful _Effect_ which arises from the
_joint Order_, _Proportion_, and _Harmony_ of all the Parts
of an _Object_.
And
to have a good TASTE, is to have a just _Relish_ of BEAUTY.
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[Transcriber's Note:
Translations of Horace _Satire_ I.9 are available from Project
Gutenberg as e-text 5419 (verse translation, plain text) or
14020 (prose translation, text or html).]
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[CORBYN MORRIS]
An / Essay / Towards Fixing the / True Standards / of / Wit, Humour,
Raillery, / Satire, and Ridicule. / To which is Added, an / Analysis /
Of the Characters of / An Humourist, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Roger / De
Coverly, and Don Quixote. / Inscribed, to the Right Honorable / Robert
Earl of Orford. / [rule] / By the Author of a / Letter from a By-
Stander. / [rule] /--Jacta est Alea. / [double rule] / London: /
Printed for J. Roberts, at the Oxford-Arms, in War- / wick-lane; and
W. Bickerton, In the Temple-Ex- / change, near the Inner-Temple-Gate,
Fleet-street. / M DCC XLIV. [Price 2 s.] /
Collation: A, a-c, in fours; d in two; a-d, in fours; B-K in fours;
L in two. A, title; verso blank; A^2-d, dedication; d^2 erratum and
advertisements; a-d^4, Introduction; B-L^2, text.


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