Essays on the Stage - Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) by Thomas D'Urfey
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he thinks will infallibly overcome censure
_original reads_ iufallibly There, says he, is a description of sucking for ye _original reads_ There, says he, .. . description of sucking for ye And then like another Devil of a Joker runs on _original reads_ ruus did not his plaguee want of Memory _so in original_ after he has been bringing forth a Litter of Mr. _Congreeves_ Epithetes, as he calls them _original reads_ Epithetes, [blank] calls them and incessant scalding Rain _original reads_ incess... He tells ye more plain in troth than wittily _original reads_ He tells ye more plain in trot. ..an wittily they make the Poem look like a Bitch overstock'd with Puppies, and suck the sense almost to Skin and Bone. For a Child to suck the Mother till the Blood follows, I think is not unreasonable, but for a Litter of Epithetes to suck the sense of a Poem to the Skin and Bone, is such Fustian stuff that |
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