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description: Excerpt from Plays and Poems, Vol. 2 of 5 Let it suffice, that the tragedy OF tragedies or, the life and death OF tom thumb, was written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Nor can the objection made by Mr. D that the tragedy must then have been antecedent to the history, have any weight, when we consider, that, though the history OF tom thumb, printed by and for Edward M r, at the Looking-glass on London Bridge, be of a later date, still must we suppose this history to have been transcribed from some other, unless we suppose the writer thereof to be a gift very faintly con tended for by the writers of our age. As to this history's not bearing the stamp of second, third, or fourth edition, I see but little in that objection; editions being very uncertain lights to judge of books and perhaps Mr. M I may have joined twenty editions in one, as Mr. C 1 bath ere now divided one into twenty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
language: English
title: Plays and Poems, part 2: The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Vol. 9
titlecomplete: Plays and Poems, part 2: The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Vol. 9
publisher: Classic Publishers