Vulgar words in Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 (Page 1)

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blockhead x 2
damn x 2
make love x 5
            

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No, give me the bold upright youth, who makes love to-day, and has his head shot off to- morrow.

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"_Moses._ Why she's damn'd ugly.

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and you told me she had a lovely down upon her chin, like the down of a peach; but, damn me if ever I saw such down upon any creature in my life, except once upon an old goat."

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There is reason too to believe, from the following memorandum, which occurs in various shapes through these manuscripts, that the device of the screen was not yet thought of, and that the discovery was to be effected in a very different manner-- "Making love to aunt and niece--meeting wrong in the dark--some one coming--locks up the aunt, thinking it to be the niece."

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Oh, blockhead, dolt Solomon!

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He has been bred in the country a bumpkin all his life, till within these six years, when he was sent to the University, but the misfortunes that have reduced his father falling out, he is returned, the most ridiculous animal you ever saw, a conceited, disputing blockhead.

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In addition to these causes of disquietude, he has lately lost, in a mysterious manner, his only son, who, he supposes, has fallen a victim to these Satanic outlaws, but who, on the contrary, it appears, has voluntarily become an associate of their band, and is amusing himself, heedless of his noble father's sorrow, by making love, in the disguise of a dancing bear, to a young village coquette of the name of Mopsa.

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--'Oh, no, upon my soul, I made love to her directly.'

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The affectation of appearing to make love, while talking on different matters, is illustrated by the following simile: "So when dramatic statesmen talk apart, With practis'd gesture and heroic start, The plot's their theme, the gaping galleries guess, While Hull and Fearon think of nothing less."

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