Thomas Dekker Edited, with an introd and notes . , and theirsecret lies hidden probably in Dekkers brain alone. There is in the second part of The Honest IMiore,where Bellafront, a reclaimed harlot, recounts some of themiseries of her profession, a simple picture of honour andshame, contrasted without violence, and expressed withoutimmodesty, which is worth all the sfrojig lines against theharlots profession, with which both parts of this play areoffensively crowded. A satirist is always to be suspected,who, to make vice odious, dwells upon all its acts andminutest circumstances with a sort of
Thomas Dekker Edited, with an introd and notes . , and theirsecret lies hidden probably in Dekkers brain alone. There is in the second part of The Honest IMiore,where Bellafront, a reclaimed harlot, recounts some of themiseries of her profession, a simple picture of honour andshame, contrasted without violence, and expressed withoutimmodesty, which is worth all the sfrojig lines against theharlots profession, with which both parts of this play areoffensively crowded. A satirist is always to be suspected,who, to make vice odious, dwells upon all its acts andminutest circumstances with a sort of relish and retrospectivefondness. But so near are the boundaries of panegyric andinvective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to makethe best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoneddescriptions, which in his unregenerate state served but toinflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist willserve him, a little turned, to expose the enormity of thoseappetites in other men.—C. Laisib : Specimens of EnglishDramatic
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