Excerpt from Catherine; Lovel the Widower; Denis Duval; Ballads; Etc And though it may be said, with some considerable show Of reason, that agreeably low and delightfully disgusting characters have already been treated, both copiously and ably, by some eminent writers of the present (and, indeed, Of future) ages though to tread in the footsteps Of the immortal fagin requires a genius Of inordinate stride, and to go a-robbing after the late though deathless turpin, the renowned jack sheppard, or the embryo duval, may be ...
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Excerpt from Catherine; Lovel the Widower; Denis Duval; Ballads; Etc And though it may be said, with some considerable show Of reason, that agreeably low and delightfully disgusting characters have already been treated, both copiously and ably, by some eminent writers of the present (and, indeed, Of future) ages though to tread in the footsteps Of the immortal fagin requires a genius Of inordinate stride, and to go a-robbing after the late though deathless turpin, the renowned jack sheppard, or the embryo duval, may be impossible, and not an infringement, but a wasteful indication of ill-will towards the eighth commandment; though it may, on the one hand, be asserted that only vain coxcombs would dare to write on subjects already described by men really and deservedly eminent on the other hand, that these subjects have been described so fully, that nothing more can be said about them; on the third hand (allowing, for the sake Of argument, three hands to one figure Of speech), that the public has heard so much of them, as to be quite tired of rogues, thieves, cut-throats, and N ewgate altogether - though all these Objections may be urged, and each is excellent, yet we intend to take a few more pages from the Old Bailey Calendar, to bless the public with one more draught from the Stone Iug: * - yet awhne to listen, hurdle-mounted, and riding down the Oxford Road, to the bland conversation Of jack Ketch, and to hang with him round the neck Of his patient, at the end of our and his history. We give the reader fair notice, that we shall tickle him with a few such scenes Of villany, throat-cutting, and bodily suffering in general, as are not to be found, no, not in never mind com parisons, for such are odious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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