A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729)

The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729), by Anthony Collins This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) Author: Anthony Collins Editor: Edward A. Bloom Lillian D. Bloom Release Date: October 27, 2009 [EBook #30343] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RIDICULE, IRONY IN WRITING *** Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Joseph Cooper, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY ANTHONY COLLINS A DISCOURSE CONCERNING Ridicule and Irony IN WRITING (1729) Introduction by EDWARD A. BLOOM AND LILLIAN D. BLOOM PUBLICATION NUMBER 142 WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY University of California, Los Angeles 1970 GENERAL EDITORS William E. Conway, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library George Robert Guffey, University of California, Los Angeles Maximillian E. Novak, University of California, Los Angeles ASSOCIATE EDITOR David S. Rodes, University of California, Los Angeles ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan James L. Clifford, Columbia University Ralph Cohen, University of Virginia Vinton A.