Vulgar words in Fielding (Page 1)
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Enemies abuse him, Friends give him up, the Play is damn'd, and the Author goes to the Devil, so ends the Farce."
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I did, as you say, once make a small Sally into _Parnassus_, took a sort of flying Leap over _Helicon_: But if ever they catch me there again-- Sir, the Town have a Prejudice to my Family; for if any Play you'd have made them ashamed to damn it, mine must.
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The Dialogue was plain, easy, and natural, and not one single Joke in it from the Beginning to the End: Besides, Sir, there was one Scene of tender melancholy Conversation, enough to have melted a Heart of Stone; and yet they damn'd it: And they damn'd themselves; for they shall have no more of mine.
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But they were reprinted in a rambling production issued from "Curll's chaste press" in 1740, and entitled the _Tryal of Colley Cibber, Comedian, &c._ At the end of this there is a short address to "the _Self-dubb'd Captain_ Hercules Vinegar, _alias_ Buffoon," to the effect that "the malevolent Flings exhibited by him and his Man _Ralph_," have been faithfully reproduced.
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Other minor points of interest in connection with the _Jacobite's Journal_, are the tradition associating Hogarth with the rude woodcut headpiece (a Scotch man and woman on an ass led by a monk) which surmounted its earlier numbers, and the genial welcome given in No.
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They maintain their Point so far, however, as to be convinc'd they say, that _you_ will disapprove this over-rigid Judgment of those Friends, who you'd not find a Thread of Moral Meaning in Tom Jones, quite independent of the Levities they justly censure.--And, as soon as you have Time to read him, for yourself, tis there, pert Sluts, they will be bold enough to rest the Matter.--Mean while, they love and honour you and your opinions."
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They did not understand that freedom, and ran up, where they found him banqueting with a blind man, a whore, and three Irishmen, on some cold mutton and a bone of ham, both in one dish, and the dirtiest cloth.
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Notwithstanding that on another occasion he paradoxically asserted that the author was "a blockhead"--"a barren rascal," he read it through without stopping, and pronounced Mrs. Booth to be "the most pleasing heroine of all the romances."