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An essay towards fixing the true standards of wit, humour, raillery, satire, and ridicule : To which is added, an analysis of the characters of an humourist, Sir John Falstaff, Sir Roger de Coverly, and Don Quixote : inscribed to the Right Honorable Robert Earl of Orford / by the author of A letter from a by-stander [Corbyn Morris].

Morris, Corbyn, 1710-1779.

London : Printed for J. Roberts, at the Oxford-Arms, in Warwick-lane; and W.Bickerton, in the Temple-Exchange, near the Inner-Temple-Gate, Fleet-street, 1744.

PML 9227.7

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Printed Books

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MORGAN LIBRARY RECEIVES MAJOR REMBRANDT LANDSCAPE DRAWING AS GIFT

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Tuesday, February 1, 2000

The Morgan Library announced today that it has acquired, through the generosity of an anonymous friend, an extraordinary pen-and-ink landscape drawing by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669). Dating to around 1650, it depicts a panoramic view of a bulwark and a group of houses seen from the walls of the city of Amsterdam.

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