Selections from the Miscellanies of 1743 All texts were prepared from my First Edition subscribers copy. The notes are all my own, and if you feel I have erred in my commentary, please let me know.
Men are Mad who write in such an Age.
Not so , reply'd his Friend, a sneering Blade, The Poet's only dull, the Printer's mad. John Watts was a London printer, and printed the vast majority of Fielding's plays between 1730 and 1737. An Epigram That Kate weds a Fool what Wonder can be, Her Husband has married a Fool as great as she. Latin grammars, as anyone who has ever waded through one knows, are filled with rules and exceptions to rules in an attempt at explaining language in a logical way. Written Extempore in the Pump-Room, 1742.