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The publisher, of course, was Andrew Millar; and the actual day of issue, as appears from the General Advertiser, was December the 19th, although the title-page, by anticipation, bore the date of 1752. There were two mottoes, one of which was the appropriate "Felices ter & amplius Quos irrupta tenet Copula;" and the dedication, brief and simply expressed, was to Ralph Allen.
24 George II. c. 40. June 1751. Middlesex Records. General Advertiser. Sept. 9. 1751. Middlesex Records. October, 1751. "of all my Offspring she is my favourite Child." The Covent Garden Journal. No. 8. On the 2nd of December 1751 the General Advertiser announces that On Wednesday the 18th of this Month will be published By HENRY FIELDING, Esq; Beati ter et amplius Quos irrupta tenet Copula.
Sir Robert Somerset and your lady mother were amply satisfied with the account which his lordship gave of my character; but with all this, in one point every man is vulnerable. No scholar can forget those lines of the poet: 'Felices ter, et amplius, Quos irrupta tenet copula; nec malis Divulsus quærimoniis, Supremâ citius solvet amor die. It has been my misfortune that I have felt them.
Mills, Mr. Booth, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Bullock, Sen., Mr. Norris, Mr. Pack, Mr. Bullock, Jun., Mrs. Elrington, Mrs. Powel, Mrs. Bradshaw, Mrs. Cox. And the Witches by Mr. Burkhead, Mr. Ryan, Mrs. Mills, and Mrs. Willis. No. 142. Monday, August 13, 1711. Steele. ... Irrupta tenet Copula ... Hor.
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