Vulgar words in The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems (Page 1)
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It is said, though perhaps not on the best authority, that when Pope once forgot himself so far as to make love to Lady Mary Wortley Montague, the lady's answer was "a fit of immoderate laughter."
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In an appendix to the 'Dunciad' Pope collected some of the epithets with which his enemies had pelted him, "an ape," "an ass," "a frog," "a coward," "a fool," "a little abject thing."
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damn the lock!
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Some neither can for Wits nor Critics pass, As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass.
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395 Thus Wit, like Faith, by each man is apply'd To one small sect, and all are damn'd beside.
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The Vulgar thus through Imitation err; As oft the Learn'd by being singular; 425 So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng By chance go right, they purposely go wrong; So Schismatics the plain believers quit, And are but damn'd for having too much wit.
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The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears.
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Arthur, whose giddy son neglects the Laws, Imputes to me and my damn'd works the cause: Poor Cornus sees his frantic wife elope, 25 And curses Wit, and Poetry, and Pope.
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let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an Ass: 80 The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie?)
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View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; 200 Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend.
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300 A lash like mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead.
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that thing of silk, _Sporus_, that mere white curd of Ass's milk?
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that Father held it for a rule, 380 It was a sin to call our neighbour fool: That harmless Mother thought no wife a whore: Hear this, and spare his family, _James Moore!_ Unspotted names, and memorable long!
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'618 With him:' according to "the bookful blockhead."
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He reserves his lash for those who trample on their neighbors and insult "fallen worth," for cold or treacherous friends, liars, and babbling blockheads.
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'69 Midas': an old legend tells us that Midas was presented with a pair of ass's ears by an angry god whose music he had slighted.
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'304 ass's milk': Hervey was obliged by bad health to keep a strict diet, and a cup of ass's milk was his daily drink.
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The allusion is probably to the way in which Lady Mary Wortley Montague allowed Pope to make love to her and then laughed at him.
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damn the lock!