A satire on fashionable enthusiasms for Laurence Sterne, Samuel Foote, and above all, for George Whitefield. In three comparments each with a crowd clamouring as it is addressed by its hero: Sterne holds his newly published 'Tristram Shandy' and a bag of cash labelled 'Magnus'; Whitefield, whose bag of cash is labelled 'Maxime', condemns Foote as 'a Child of Hell'; Foote holds out his new play 'The Minor', a satire on Whitefield and Methodism, and a bag of cash labelled 'Parvus'. While the crowds of the author and the playwright are well-dressed, Whitefield's includes a number of old people and street-sellers offering hymns and pamphlets for sale; an inscription in an old hand identifies as 'Mrs. Cole' (a character in 'The Minor') a woman with patches on her face who is saying 'Heal us for we are unclean'.  1760
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<p>Published by: G Gibbs
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<dl><dd>Published by: William Tringham</dd></dl></div>
1760<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1760-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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