Jeremy Collier Quotes

Jeremy Collier was an English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian.

✵ 23. September 1650 – 26. April 1726
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Jeremy Collier Quotes

“This is brave Bear-Garden language!”

See John Ray for explanation of Bear Garden.
Source: A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, p 232. (1698)

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