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BG.741.005
3-10 Aug 1741:11,22 (1015)
From the Gentleman's Magazine, for February 1741.
Of Ambition in its several kinds and degrees of life.
. . . [15 lines] View of private life, they become
farcical, and instead of raising anxiety are diverting. If
it shou'd be the ambition of a young gentleman or young lady
to commence a finish'd Petit Maitre or modern Belle, dress,
finery, balls, operas, with a long etcaetera, are their only
studies, while good sense and understanding are totaly
neglected and undervalued: Hence there is scarce a beau but
is a blockhead, or a belle who has common sense. . .
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