Vulgar words in The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 (Page 1)

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ass x 1
bastard x 2
blockhead x 2
buffoon x 4
damn x 1
            
make love x 2
pimp x 1
whore x 2
            

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I like to hear you are well and diverted; nay, have pimped towards the latter, by desiring Lady Ailesbury to send you Monsieur do Guisnes's invitation to a military f'ete at Metz.

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If an Italian man has a grain of sense, he is a buffoon.

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Burke said, he had heard of an asylum for debtors and whores, never for magistrates; and of ships never of armies securing a port.

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Johnson--'He was a blockhead for his pains!'

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That confessor said, "Damn him, he has told a great deal of truth, but where the devil did he learn it?"

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I baptized Sarah, the bastard daughter of the Widow Smallwood, of Eton, aged near fifty, whose husband died about a year ago.--March 6, Very fine weather.

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This sublime age reduces every thing to its quintessence: all periphrases and expletives are so much in disuse, that I suppose soon the only way of making love will be to say "Lie down."

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It is certainly not so Gothic as that in my Holbein room; but there is a great deal of taste for that bastard style; perhaps it was executed at Nonsuch.

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Many men are about falsehood like girls about the first man that makes love to them: a handsomer, a richer, or even a sincerer lover cannot eradicate the first impression--but a sillier swain, or a sillier legend, sometimes gets into the head of a miss or the learned man, and displaces the antecedent folly.

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This line is quite unnecessary, and infers an obedience in displaying her wound which would be shocking; besides, as there is often a buffoon in an audience at a new tragedy, it might be received dangerously.

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The more marvellous Fox's parts are, the more one is provoked at his follies, which comfort so many rascals and blockheads, and make all that is admirable and amiable in him only matter of regret to those who like him as I do.

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(page 312) You are always kind to me, dear Sir, in all respects, but I have been forced to recur to a rougher prescription than ass's milk.

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Aristophanes and Lucian, compared with moderns, were, the one a blackguard, and the other a buffoon.

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They talk of two wills--to be sure, in her double capacity; and they say she has made three coheiresses to her jewels, the Empress of Russia, Lady Salisbury, and the whore of Babylon.

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Last night the Earl of Barrymore was so humble as to perform a buffoon-dance and act Scaramouch in a pantomime at Richmond for the benefit of Edwin, Jun.

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