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

  • Tom Brown
Date:
1700
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Credit: Amusements serious and comical / calculated for the meridian of London. By Mr. Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [sd Thus much for Serious Matters : Let us now make hafte to Pleafan- — try. ‘ have a great mind to be in Print; — but above all, I would fain be an Ori- ginal, and that is a true Comical Thought: When all the Learned Men in the World are but Tranflators, is it not a Pleafant Jeft, that you fhould - ftrive to be an Original! You fhould have obferved your Time, and have come into the World with the An- cient Greeks for that purpofe ; for the Latines themfelves are but Co- pies. : aes This Difcourfe has mightily dif there is fuch an Embargo laid upon Inyention, that no Man can produce any thing that is perfectly New, and intirely his own? Many Authors, I confefs, have told me fo: I will enquire further about it, and if Sir Roger, Mr. Dryden, and Mr. Dur- fey Confirm ic, then I will Believe it. 3 What need all this Toy! and Clut- ter about Original Authors and Tran- Thinks Juftly, and Writes Correctly, B 3 another
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