Vulgar words in Among My Books - First Series (Page 1)
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* * * * * The poets, who must live by courts or starve, Were proud so good a Government to serve, And, mixing with buffoons and pimps profane, Tainted the Stage for some small snip of gain."
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but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms!...
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Some of Dryden's best satirical hits are let fall by seeming accident in his prose, as where he says of his Protestant assailants, "Most of them love all whores but her of Babylon."
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Never was comedy acted over and over with such sameness of repetition as "The Devil is an Ass."
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How often must he have exclaimed (laughing in his sleeve):-- "_I_ to such blockheads set my wit, _I_ damn such fools!--go, go, you're bit!"
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Then, there was the Philosopher Ammonius, whose lectures were constantly attended by an ass,--a phenomenon not without parallel in more recent times, and all the more credible to Bodin, who had been professor of civil law.
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In Germany, two witches who kept an inn made an ass of a young actor,--not always a very prodigious transformation it will be thought by those familiar with the stage.
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[105] One foot of the Greek Empusa was an ass's hoof.
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Their preachers had a way, like the painful Mr. Perkins, of pronouncing the word _damn_ with such an emphasis as left a doleful echo in their auditors' ears a good while after.
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"To one dissection of the fore quarter of an ass," says Haydon in his diary, "I owe my information."
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Wig ducked to wig, each blockhead had a brother, and there was a universal apotheosis of the mediocrity of our set.