Excerpt from Feast of the Poets, With Other Pieces in Verse Suckling and Rochester, it is evident, could have done much better had they pleased. But there is a strange afiectation of slovenliness about the lower species of satire in those times, which appears to have been mis taken for a vigorous negligence or gallant undress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.