A satirical lecture on hearts : as it has been performed, at Exeter Exchange in the Strand, Westminster, and also, at Manchester, Liverpool, Chester, and other places; with several valuable additions, particularly, The heart of a man of merit, or the accomplished gentleman, never before published: To which is added, A critical dissertation on noses ... / [James Solas Dodd].

  • James Dodd
Date:
[1770?]
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Credit: A satirical lecture on hearts : as it has been performed, at Exeter Exchange in the Strand, Westminster, and also, at Manchester, Liverpool, Chester, and other places; with several valuable additions, particularly, The heart of a man of merit, or the accomplished gentleman, never before published: To which is added, A critical dissertation on noses ... / [James Solas Dodd]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    craft and arbitrary Power got hold of it, and fo lugg’d and tugg’d it about, that James the iId. was forced to walk off with it in this very condition. A LECTURE ' O N HEARTS. PART II. Ladies and Gentlemen, lr~|*MLOSE who know ought of human nature muft ac¬ knowledge that there is not any thing in the world more difficult to underhand than the heart of man,-—imlefs it is the heart of a woman. However difficult the talk is, 1 have attempted it. And. that the ladies may not think themfelves negle&ed, 1 have procured a parcel of female hearts. This is a tender heart, (13) women’s hearts are ge¬ nerally tender, but this was extraordinarily fo. It be¬ longed to mifs Sufan Sympathy, a milliner, near Co¬ vent-Garden. She had too much tendernefs to refufe her confent to any thing that was afked her; ffie com- paffionated every diftrefs ffie faw, whether real or af- fumed: Her tender heart was uneafy at the fight of it. She purchas’d relief to herfelf, by bellowing it on the feemingiy miferable, and then thought ffie had done an all of charity. Why ffie would weep at the death of a fparrow; and when Lancelot Loveall, Efq; en- fign in a marching regiment, threw himfelf at her (13 J Shewing a pale heart. feet,
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