“This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet.”
David Garrick (1717–1779) English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer
Jupiter and Mercury.
“He [Richard Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.”
Review of Aiken’s Life of Addison
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