The Scribleriad, and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue
by Baron John Hervey Hervey Anonymous
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Excerpt from The Scribleriad (Anonymous) (1742): Lord Hervey, the Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue (1742) Lane (1718) was hardly noticed, whereas John Rich had more re cently bestowed an orpheus on the Town (p. 25) to very differ ent effect. Rich's Orpheus and Eurydice. With the Metamorphoses of Harlequin had opened on 12 February 1740 at Covent Garden, where he was manager. With Rich himself as Harlequin, it was a wild success, that season - remaining a regular and highly popular afterpiece through the 1741-42 season and later. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundr...
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