Vulgar words in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 - The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 (Page 1)
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The pictures of the Simoom, of frenzy and ruin, of the whore of Babylon and the cry of the foul spirits disherited of Earth and the strange beatitude which the good man shall recognise in heaven--as well as the particularizing of the children of wretchedness-- (I have unconsciously included every part of it) form a variety of uniform excellence.
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126 page, the procession, the appearances of the Maid, of the Bastard son of Orleans and of Tremouille, are full of fire and fancy, and exquisite melody of versification.
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How I sympathise with you on the dull duty of a reviewer, and heartily damn with you Ned Evans and the Prosodist.
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These were the reasons given by Coleridge for monarchs making war:-- When Luxury and Lust's exhausted stores No more can rouse the appetites of KINGS; When the low Flattery of their reptile Lords Falls flat and heavy on the accustomed ear; When Eunuchs sing, and Fools buffoon'ry make.
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He did not alter "moveless" to "moping" in "The Young Ass."
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Don't you think your verses on a Young Ass too trivial a companion for the Religious Musings?
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"The Young Ass," early versions, ended thus:-- Soothe to rest The tumult of some Scoundrel Monarch's breast.
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I had an end in view; I wished to make you reject the poem, only as being discordant with the other; and, in subservience to that end, it was politically done in me to over-pass, and make no mention of merit which, could you think me capable of _overlooking_, might reasonably damn for ever in your judgment all pretensions in me to be critical.
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And this is the cuckoo that has had the audacity to foist upon me ten buttons on a side and a black velvet collar--A damn'd ninth of a scoundrel!
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And now to softer strains they struck the lyre, They sung the beetle or the mole, The dying kid, or ass's foal, By cruel man permitted to expire.
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I think this vein may be further opened; Peter Pindar hath very prettily apostrophised a fly; Burns hath his mouse and his louse; Coleridge, less successfully, hath made overtures of intimacy to a jackass, therein only following at unresembling distance Sterne and greater Cervantes.
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To quit this damn'd subject, and to relieve you from two or three dismal yawns, which I hear in spirit, I here conclude my more than commonly obtuse letter; dull up to the dulness of a Dutch commentator on Shakspeare.
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Damn virtue that's thrust upon us; it behaves itself with such constraint, till conscience opens the window and lets out the goose.
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In the midst of this infernal torture, Conscience (and be damn'd to her), is barking and yelping as loud as any of them.
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Damn you, I was beginning to forgive you and believe in earnest that the lugging in of my proper name was purely unintentional on your part, when looking back for further conviction, stares me in the face _Charles Lamb of the India House.
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I had got my finger away, nor could he well have bit me with his damn'd big mouth, which would have been certain death in five minutes.
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He opened his damn'd mouth, when he made at me, as wide as his head was broad.
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I could not resist so facile and moderate a demand, so scribbled out another, omitting sundry things, such as the witch story, about half of the forest scene (which is too leisurely for story), and transposing that damn'd soliloquy about England getting drunk, which, like its reciter, stupidly stood alone, nothing prevenient or antevenient, and cleared away a good deal besides; and sent this copy, written _all out_ (with alterations, &c., _requiring judgment_) in one day and a half!
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Dyer knows the shoemaker (a damn'd stupid hound in company); but George promises to introduce him indiscriminately to all friends and all combinations.
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O City abounding in whores, for these may Keswick and her giant brood go hang!
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The play is the man's you wot of; but for God's sake (who would not like to have so pious a _professor's_ work _damn'd_) do not mention it--it is to come out in a feigned name, as one Tobin's.
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We are damn'd!
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It can only diminish that respect we feel for her to make her turn whore to one of the Lords of his Bed-chamber.
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Her son must not know that she has been a whore: it matters not that she has been whore to a _King_: equally in both cases it is against decorum and against the delicacy of a son's respect that he should be privy to it.
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Damn the husband and his "gentlemanlike qualities."
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Every part of it pleased me till you came to Paris; and your damn'd philosophical indolence or indifference stung me.
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thou damn'd Smell-fungus!
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The Professor's Rib has come out to be a damn'd disagreeable woman, so much so as to drive me and some more old cronies from his house.
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Fenwick is still in debt, and the Professor has not done making love to his new spouse.
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Damn them!--I mean the cursed Barbauld Crew, those Blights and Blasts of all that is Human in man and child.
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Cowper's damn'd blank verse detains you every step with some heavy Miltonism; Chapman gallops off with you his own free pace.
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How the old Gentleman, who joined you at Grantham, would have clappt his hands to his knees, and not knowing but it was an immediate visitation of God that burnt him, how pious it would have made him; him, I mean, that brought the Influenza with him, and only took places for one--a damn'd old sinner, he must have known what he had got with him!
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Sleep, too, I can't get for these damn'd winds of a night: and without sleep and rest what should ensue?
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By the bye, I saw a miniature of his as far excelling any in his shew cupboard (that of your sister not excepted) as that shew cupboard excells the shew things you see in windows--an old woman--damn her name--but most superlative; he has it to clean--I'll ask him the name--but the best miniature I ever saw, equal to Cooper and them fellows.
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In addition to this, a whore was another principal character--a most unfortunate choice in this moral day.
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But the mortal blunder of the play was that which, oddly enough, H. took pride in, and exultingly told me of the night before it came out, that there were no less than eleven principal characters in it, and I believe he meant of the men only, for the play-bill exprest as much, not reckoning one woman and one whore; and true it was, for Mr. Powell, Mr. Raymond, Mr. Bartlett, Mr. H. Siddons, Mr. Barrymore, &c. &c.,--to the number of eleven, had all parts equally prominent, and there was as much of them in quantity and rank as of the hero and heroine--and most of them gentlemen who seldom appear but as the hero's friend in a farce--for a minute or two--and here they all had their ten-minute speeches, and one of them gave the audience a serious account how he was now a lawyer but had been a poet, and then a long enumeration of the inconveniences of authorship, rascally booksellers, reviewers, &c.; which first set the audience a-gaping; but I have said enough.
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It is kept a sort of secret, and the rehearsals have gone on privately, lest by many folks knowing it, the story should come out, which would infallibly damn it.
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A hundred hisses--damn the word, I write it like kisses--how different--a hundred hisses outweigh a 1000 Claps.
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You will forgive the plates, when I tell you they were left to the direction of Godwin, who left the choice of subjects to the bad baby, who from mischief (I suppose) has chosen one from damn'd beastly vulgarity (vide Merch.
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Suffice it, to save our taste and damn our folly, that we left it all to a friend W. G.--who in the first place cheated me into putting a name to them, which I did not mean, but do not repent, and then wrote a puff about their _simplicity_, &c., to go with the advertisement as in my name!
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Damn 'em, how they hissed!
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"Damn 'em, how they hissed."
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While I think on it, Coleridge, I fetch'd away my books which you had at the "Courier" Office, and found all but a third volume of the old plays, containing "The White Devil," "Green's Tu Quoque," and the "Honest Whore,"--perhaps the most valuable volume of them all--_that_ I could not find.
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Must I then leave you, Gin, Rum, Brandy, Aqua Vitae--pleasant jolly fellows--Damn Temperance and them that first invented it, some Anti Noahite.
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A plate of plain Turtle, another of Turbot, with good roast Beef in the rear, and, as Alderman Curtis says, whoever can't make a dinner of that ought to be damn'd.
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Yet I have some bastard kind of recollection that somewhere, some time ago, upon some stall or other, I saw it.
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That it was no settled comparative estimate of Voltaire with any of his own tribe of buffoons--no injustice, even _you_ spoke it, for I dared say you never could relish Candide.
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Dear Mrs. H.: Sally who brings this with herself back has given every possible satisfaction in doing her work, etc., but the fact is the poor girl is oppressed with a ladylike melancholy, and cannot bear to be so much alone, as she necessarily must be in our kitchen, which to say the truth is damn'd solitary, where she can see nothing and converse with nothing and not even look out of window.
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Damn 'em; if you give 'em an inch &c. The preface is noble and such as you should write: I wish I could set my name to it--Imprimatur--but you have set it there yourself, and I thank you.
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Not but he has his damn'd eye upon us, and is w[h]etting his infernal feathered dart every instant, as you see him truly pictured in that impressive moral picture, "The good man at the hour of death."
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"Not on his soal but on his soul, damn'd Jew" may the malediction of my eternal antipathy light--We desire much to hear from you, and of you all, including Miss Hutchinson, for not writing to whom Mary feels a weekly (and did for a long time feel a daily) Pang.
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You might pit me For height Against Kean; But in a grand tragic scene I'm nothing:-- It would create a kind of loathing To see me act Hamlet; There'd be many a damn let Fly At my presumption If I should try, Being a fellow of no gumption.
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I cannot walk home from office but some officious friend offers his damn'd unwelcome courtesies to accompany me.
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Yours truly C. L. I think Southey will give us a lift in that damn'd Quarterly.
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Damn 'em.
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Damn 'em!