BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Reading edition
The facsimile of Pamela Censured (1741) is reproduced by permission from the copy (Shelf Mark: *EC7/R3961/T741p) in the Houghton Library, Harvard University. The total type-page (p. 7) measures 166 x 83 mm.
PAMELA CENSURED:
IN A LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
SHEWING
That under the Specious Pretence of Cultivating the Principles of Virtue in the Minds of the Youth of both Sexes, the most artful and alluring amorous Ideas are convey'd.
And that, instead of being divested of all Images that tend to inflame; Her Letters abound with Incidents, which must necessarily raise in the unwary Youth that read them, Emotions far distant from the Principles of Virtue.
Exemplified in many Quotations, with a Critical Review, and Remarks upon the Whole.
Ridet hoc, inquam, Venus ipsa; rident Simplices Nymphæ, ferus & Cupido, Semper ardentes acuens Sagittas Cote Cruenta. HORAT.
LONDON:
Printed for J. Roberts, at the Oxford Arms, in Warwick-Lane. Mdccxli.
