Amusements serious and comical / calculated for the meridian of London. By Mr. Brown.

  • Tom Brown
Date:
1700
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Amusements serious and comical / calculated for the meridian of London. By Mr. Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    152] thought it wou’d have went to the — very Heart of him. In the mean cime he did nat fo much as feel the Blow ; the Callus of his Vanity had made him invulnerable , he rakes every thing you fay:to him in good part. Call him in. an Ironical man- ner, the Great: Heroe of Probity, he ~ takes yeu in the Litteral Senfe. Tell him in the plain Language of 7. 0. that he’s a confounded Rafcal, Oh Sir, fays he, your humble Servant, you dre difpofed to be merry! find; thus he takes it for Raillery. | Thefe Raillers have a fine time on’c you fee, to Fez upon a Man of fo Oily a Temper. . Whata Vexation is it to your Gentlemen that fpeak fharp and witty Things, to level them at fo fupple a Slave. All the Pleafure woud be to: touch him’ to the Quick, to confound his Vanity. Wit does but hazard it felf by At- tacking him in the Face, theres no- thing ta he got by it: Vanity ig a Wallof Brafs. : Bue T find nothing will be loft. There fits a Gentleman im the corneg ef a quite different Temper, who fakes ¢ every thing upon himielf, that was
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