page 5, line 1--"word apparently omitted" should be inclosed in
brackets.
page 5, line 6--"not identified" should be inclosed in brackets.
page 6, line 5--the first "of" should be omitted.
["modern readers need not regret too much of the omission
of the fulsome 32 page dedication"]
page 6, line 12, should read
"Walpole is praised for not curbing the press while necessarily
curbing the theatre, his aid to commerce".
["Walpole is praised for not curbing the theatre; his aid to
commerce"]
page 6, line 25--"sic" should be inclosed in brackets, as also
"P.L. 7. 363-66" in the next line.
[ ESSAY ON WIT:
page viii: Whence in _Aristotle_ such Persons are termed
"epidexioi", dexterous Men
The Greek may read "epidezioi"; the letter-form is ambiguous.
page 14: ... without any Reference to their whimsical _Oddities_
or _Foibles_;
Text reads _Oddistie_.
page 20 and elsewhere: "Biass" is an attested variant spelling;
it has not been changed.
page 25: "teizes" (modern "teases") is an attested variant spelling;
it has not been changed.
page 40: --It is therefore no wonder that Signior _Don Quixote of
la Mancha_ ...
Text reads _Quoxote_. ]
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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.
By the AUTHOR of a
LETTER from a BY-STANDER.
---- _Jacta est Alea_.