A Touch at the Times: A Comedy in Five Acts, as Performed at the Theatre Royal Covent-Garden (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Be'fbre I conclude, I must be allowed to notice a very unfair cl'iticisiif wh1ch appeared 111 one of the daily papers. I am disposed to listen calmly and with due deference to remarks on the lztemrjy characte1 of my play, but with respect to its moral, I will stand up boldly in the mainte nance of its purity. That there are such characters as Beaumont, is too notorious, and if my humble effort adds to their odium, I shallhave abundant 1eason to be satis fied for I confess I do not perceive how the holding up Vice to 1nd'ign'ation 1sia violat1on of decorum. I am 1111 conscmus of any expression, or idea offensive to virtue, and I think I may venture to assume some degree of merit, in treatimr the subjecti have chosen with verbal propriety. The sagacious critic to whom I allude, 1s extremely' 111.

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