oth translations
as "well known to the readers of Circulating Libraries." _Progress of
Romance_ (1785), I, 130.

[2]
Austin Dobson, _Eighteenth Century Vignettes_, First Series, 44.
"Captain Coram's Charity."

[3]
In one other respect Natura belongs to the new rather than to the old
school: he takes genuine delight in the wilder beauties of the
landscape. "Whether you climb the craggy mountains or traverse the
flowery vale; whether thick woods set limits to the sight, or the wide
common yields unbounded prospect; whether the ocean rolls in solemn
state before you, or gentle streams run purling by your side, nature in
all her different shapes delights.... The stupendous mountains of the
Alps, after the plains and soft embowered recesses of Avignon, gave
perhaps a no less grateful sensation to the mind of Natura." Such
extraordinary appreciation in an age that regarded mountains as
frightful excrescences upon the face of nature, makes the connoisseur of
the passions a pioneer of the coming age rather than a survival of the
last.

[4]
J. Ireland and J. Nichols, _Hogarth's Works_, Second Series, 31, note.
"Mrs. Haywood's _Betsy Thoughtless_ was in MS entitled _Betsy Careless_;
but, from the infamy at that time annexed to the name, had a new
baptism." The "inimitable Betsy Careless" is sufficiently immortalized
in Fielding's _Amelia_, in Mrs. Charke's _Life_, and in Hogarth's
_Marriage a la Mode_, Plate III.

[5]
Austin Dobson, _Eighteenth Century Vignettes_, Third Series, 99.

[6]
"There were no plays, no operas, no masquerades, no balls, no publick
shews, except at the Little Theatre in the Hay Market, then known by the
name of F----g's scandal shop, because he frequently exhibited there
certain drolls, or, more properly, invectives against the ministry; in
doing which it appears extremely probable that he had two views; the one
to get money, which he very much wanted, from such as delighted in low
humour, and could not distinguish true satire from scurrility; and the
other, in the hope of having some post given him by those he had abused,
in order to silence his dramatick talent. But it is not my business to
point either the merit of that gentleman's performances, or the motives
he had for writing them, as the town is perfectly acquainted both with
his abilities and success, and has since seen him, with astonishment,
wriggle himself into favour, by pretending to cajole those he had not
the power to intimidate."