A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812
therefore, evident, that the original Lecture was never before published until this opportunity

   which I have taken of thus submitting it to the Public, for their approbation and patronage, whose

   Most humble and devoted servant

   I am,

   July 22, 1785.

         PROLOGUE

         LECTURE ON HEADS

         PART I.

         PART II.

         PART III.

         PART IV.

         PART V.

         AN ESSAY ON SATIRE.

   Written By Mr. Pilon Spoken At The Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden, June 24, 1780.

   Every single speaker, who, like me, attempts to entertain an audience, has not only the censure of that assembly to dread, but also every part of his own behaviour to fear. The smallest error of voice, judgment, or delivery, will be noted: "All that can be presumed upon in his favour is,

    a hope

   that he may meet with that indulgence which an English audience are so remarkable

    for

   , and that every exhibition stands so much in need

    of


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