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NEWJ.727.005
12 Jun 1727:11,12 (12)
I have lately been very much pestered with the conversation
of Dick Grubstreet. Dick is a fellow of a very low descent,
and compounded of the dregs of mortality. . . [3 para.] He
is an endless writer of songs, lampoons, with pieces of
bawdry and ribaldry; and has lent the comedians most of the
smut, which blackens some of their brightest productions.
His plays have very frequently been clapt upon the stage,
and as often, to his great mortification, hissed off; not to
mention the many political essays he has given the world,. .
. [5 lines] He has been called in to finish a great many
juvenile poems, which have begun with a great deal of fire,
and been very successful in making one slumber over long
performances.
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