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Among Q.'s topics are his reflections on Penny Readings (now 'shilling' readings) which have 'degenerated into simple "spouting places"' where 'every young man who can read a stanza of poetry without losing the sense of the argument, or misplacing his "h's," considers himself qualified for a penny reader, and doses his unfortunate hearers with selected scraps from English poets'.
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Epigraph: 'Quidquid agunt homines, votum timor ira voluptas,/ Gaudia discursus, nostri farrago libelli [est].' – Juvenal
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