"I will endeavour in the following Dissection of our <em>Puppet Heroe</em>, to convince my dear <em>Country Men</em> and <em>Country Women</em>, that they are madly following an <em>Ignis fatuus</em>, or <em>Will of the Whisp</em>, which they take for <em>real substantial Light</em>, and which I shall prove to be only the <em>Rush-light of Genius</em>, the <em>Idol of Fashion</em>, and an <em>Air-drawn Favourite of the Imagination</em>."
An Essay on Acting
1 entry in ESTC (1744).<br>
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<u>An Essay on Acting: In Which Will Be Consider'd the Mimical Behaviour of a Certain Fashionable Faulty Actor, ... to Which Will Be Added, a Short Criticism on His Acting Macbeth.</u> (London: Printed for W. Bickerton, 1744). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T6253">Link to ESTC</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004809594.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;