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 | | Upon this new enterprise fortune, at the outset, seemed to smile. |
 | | The first piece (produced on the 5th of March) was Pasquin, a Dramatick Satire on the Times (a piece akin in its plan to Buckinghams Rehearsal), which contained, in addi,tion to much admirable burlesque, a good deal of very direct criticism of the shameless political corruption of the Walpole era. |
 | | Its success was unmistakable; and when, after bringing out the remarkable Fatal Curiosity of George Lillo, its author followed up Pasquin by the Historical Register for the Year 1736, of which the effrontery was even more daring than that of its predecessor, the ministry began to bethink themselves that matters were going too far. |
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