Vulgar words in Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists (Page 1)

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--_Sir Joshua Reynolds_ [Illustration: Gainsborough] Most biographies are written with intent either to make the man a demigod or else to damn him as a rogue who has hoodwinked the world.

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He was short of stature, smooth-faced and looked like a good-natured country bumpkin in his peasant garb, all decorated with dust.

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If he did not like a woman or she did not like him--the same thing--she was a troll, wench, scullion, punk, trollop or hussy.

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They took the road for Oxford and stopped at the tavern where the gossips aver that the author of "Love's Labor's Lost" made love to the landlord's wife--a thing I never would believe, e'en though I knew 't were true.

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