Pas. Gratitude and Public Spirit, are the two Noblest Passions, that ever warm'd the Heart of Man, or fired the Poets Imagination. They Should be the Springs of every Public Character, and are this Night of Pasquin. inspired by them he has dar'd laugh at Female Folly and to lash a Noble Vice that Lords it in Our most Polite Assemblies. For which, he who was late a Iudge and Public Censor in turn, now trembles at Your dread Tribunal. The first and last Appeal of Players, Poets, Statesmen, Fidlers, Fools, Philosophers and Kings. If, by the boldness of his Satyr, or the daring Novelty of his Plan and Fable, He has offended, He ought to meet with some degree of Candour, as his Offence was the Effect of a Noble Gratitude, and an Over-heated Zeal to Please His Noble Guests & Patrons, whom he Scorn'd to treat with Vulgar Cates Season'd and Serv'd with Flattery and Common Dramatic Art. For this boldness of his Satyr, this is his Defence-- But, for his dulness, he has no Plea. If You Almighty Arbiters find him guilty of that Offence, censure him as freely as he has censured others. And, like the Roman Censor, he will cry out with Patriot Ioy, What Pity 'tis, a Blockhead can be damn'd but once, to Please the Critics. Finis. THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY _WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY_ University of California, Los Angeles PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT [Where available, Project Gutenberg e-text numbers are given in brackets.] 1948-1949 15. John Oldmixon, _Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley . . ._ (1712) and _A. Mainwaring's The British Academy . . ._ (1712). [25091] 17. Nicholas Rowe, _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare_ (1709). [16275] 1949-1950 22. Samuel Johnson, _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749), and two _Rambler_ papers (1750). [13350] 23. John Dryden, _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681). [15074] 1950-1951 26. Charles Macklin, _The Man of the World_ (1792). [14463] 1951-1952 31. Thomas Gray, _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Churchyard_ (1751), and _The Eton College Manuscript_. [15409] 1960-1961 85-6. Essays on the Theatre from Eighteenth-Century Periodicals. 90. Henry Needler, _Works_ (1728). 1961-1962 93. John Norris, _Cursory Reflections Upon a Book Call'd, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding_ (1960) 94. An. Collins, _Divine Songs and Meditacions_ (1653). [In Preparation] 95. _An Essay on the New Species of Writing Founded by Mr. Fielding_ (1751). 96. Hanoverian Ballads. 1962-1963 97. Myles Davies, Selections from _Athenae Britannicae_ (1716-1719). 98. _Select Hymns Taken Out of Mr. Herbert's Temple_ (1697). 99. Thomas Augustine Arne, Artaxerxes (1761). 100. Simon Patrick, _A Brief Account of the New Sect of Latitude Men_ (1662). 101-2. Richard Hurd, _Letters on Chivalry and Romance_ (1762). 1963-1964 103. Samuel Richardson, _Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript._ [29964]