Vulgar words in Boswell's Life of Johnson - Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (Page 1)
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For an Athenian blockhead is the worst of all blockheads.'
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One night when Beauclerk and Langton had supped at a tavern in London, and sat till about three in the morning, it came into their heads to go and knock up Johnson, and see if they could prevail on him to join them in a ramble.
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And when his Letters to his natural son were published, he observed, that 'they teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.'
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'Colley Cibber, Sir, was by no means a blockhead; but by arrogating to himself too much, he was in danger of losing that degree of estimation to which he was entitled.
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No, Sir, I called the fellow a blockhead at first, and I will call him a blockhead still.
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The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.'
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'Nay, Sir, but your Muse was not a whore.'
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Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, 'he was a blockhead;' and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, 'What I mean by his being a blockhead is that he was a barren rascal.'
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The woman's a whore, and there's an end on't.'
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The effect which it had upon Johnson was, to produce this pleasant observation to Mr. Seward, to whom he lent the book: 'This fellow must be a blockhead.
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--'Blockhead, (said he,) I'll write.'
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I never heard the word blockhead applied to a woman before, though I do not see why it should not, when there is evident occasion for it.
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This shewed both that a journal of his Tour upon the Continent was not wholly out of his contemplation, and that he uniformly adhered to that strange opinion, which his indolent disposition made him utter: 'No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.'
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One of the company added, 'A merry Andrew, a buffoon.'
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If a profuse man, who does not value his money, and gives a large sum to a whore, gives half as much, or an equally large sum to relieve a friend, it cannot be esteemed as virtue.
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I used to say of her that she was generally slut and drunkard; occasionally, whore and thief.