Volume 1

A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe] at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts / [William Wagstaffe].

  • William Wagstaffe
Date:
1719
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Credit: A letter from the facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe [i.e. W. Wagstaffe] at Bath, to his loving brother the profound Greshamite, shewing that the scribendi cacoethes is a distemper arising from a redundancy of biliose salts / [William Wagstaffe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .. [46] * Brat, and deftroy’d it in the Delivery. His ‘ kte Performance, upon which he Prides him- ‘ felt; is an eternal Jargon of Tautology, and an * ‘ inconfiftent Rapfody of borrow’d Noitjenfe ‘ and he may well defy the Faculty, for it * is as impoffible to be anfwer’d, as Tom Brown’s ‘ Declamation of Adverbs, or any other Piece of * Incoherence. f V * At Vos hiterea venlte ad ignem, Amales Voluji, cacaia charta. He was going on in thisabufive Manner, when Apollo interpos'd in Form of Fee, according to the Drfpevfary, and he retreated as haftily as he had fpoke. In the mean time, I refum’d the Dif- courfe with great Calmtefs, and (kid, the Gentle¬ man was entirely miftaken in the Character of the Dodor, for I was bred at the fame Colege with him, and confequently knew him better. One of them immediately interrupted me, by asking, in which of the Umverjltys, but, I feeming not to hear him, turn’d directly to two or three of our chief Bnrgomajfers, who were intimate with Mr. X-fi the Vintner, of your City. J I know, fays I, no two Men in the World more alike than Dr, If-d and your Acquain¬ tance Mr. T-—fib there is the fame Manner of Obliging, the fame Gracefulnefs of Gefture, the fame Quaintnefs of Addrefs, the fame Oyli- nefs of Tongue, the fame Supplenefs in their Hams, and the fame Singularity of Behaviour in them both. They are, each of them, at the Helm of their Profeiftons, and if the One Dilates too Luxuriantly upon the Virtues of hi§ Oyl> the Other, is equally as Rhetorical on the Qua? lities of his Claret. And to {peak the Truth, notwithstanding the Gentleman’s Reflections, PfJF—ds Style, * ;l like
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