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VGW(HU.767.024
29 Jan 1767:11, 12 (819)
What is generally called Knowing the World, and Seeing Life,
defined. . . [essay on shallowness of fashionable living, 1
1/4 column]
You must belong to drinking clubs, spouting clubs, and
disputing tables. You must often go to the playhouses, and
there always distinguish yourself as highly as possible in
assuming every freakish air and saucy attitude; and when the
profoundest attention is required for the hearing of any
fine and pathetick speech, you must be suddenly seized with
a loud fit of coughing, clap like a hero at what you should
not, and hiss at what you understand not. You must every
now and then kick up a dust at Ranelagh, obstruct the
entertainments at Vauxhall, and bilk the waiters at
Marybone. This is Life.
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You must go to Weatherby's, and Murphy's, and Derry's, and
to every other joyous place in the neighbourhood of the dear
Garden, where you must keep it up all night and morning in
drinking, swearing, and singing; . . .
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