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Monday, 17 December 2007

Censorship

Thomas Bowdler has shewn the truth of the old saw, that the nicest person has the nastiest ideas, & has omitted many phrases as containing indelicacies which we cannot see


Contemporary review of The Family Shakespeare
Posted by Echinatus at 08:03

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