Mr. Nahum Tate is not of a class of whom it can be safe to say that they are "well known:" they and their desperate tricks are essentially obscure, and good reason he has to exult in the felicity of such obscurity; for else this same vilest of Travesties, Mr. Nahum's Lear, would consecrate his name to everlasting scorn.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
But it is objected that inferior dramatists were sometimes preferred to Shakspeare; and again, that vile Travesties of Shakspeare were preferred to the authentic dramas.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
His dreams had been only shabby Travesties of the reality.
"Command"
William McFee