Vulgar words in De Libris: Prose and Verse (Page 1)

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ass x 2 blockhead x 4 damn x 2 half-wit x 2 make love x 2

pimp x 2

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But he would be wrong; and, in fact, would only be confirming the real author's contention that "Sure, of all blockheads, _Scholars_ are the worst."

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In the background rises what is apparently intended for the temple of a formal garden; and behind this again, a winged ass capers skittishly upon the summit of Mount Helicon.

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This is _True Taste_, and whoso likes it not, Is blockhead, coxcomb, puppy, fool, and sot.

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His "pleasures," as might be expected, like those of Goldsmith's Switzers, "are but low"-- To boon companions I my time would give, With players, pimps, and parasites I'd live.

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As this, for instance--"The humbug _virtu_ is much more out of fashon here than in England, free thinking upon that & other topicks is more common here than amongst you if possible, old pictures & old stories fare's alike, a dark picture is become a damn'd picture."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 771   ~   ~   ~

Nor is the conception less happy of that amorous fine-gentleman ancestor of the Coverleys who first made love by squeezing the hand; or of that other Knight of the Shire who so narrowly escaped being killed in the Civil Wars because he was sent out of the field upon a private message, the day before Cromwell's "crowning mercy,"--the battle of Worcester.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,062   ~   ~   ~

"Among the rest of the idle diversions of the town," he says, "one musician was famous for acting a changeling [idiot or half-wit], which indeed he personated strangely."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 192   ~   ~   ~

But he would be wrong; and, in fact, would only be confirming the real author's contention that "Sure, of all blockheads, _Scholars_ are the worst."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 236   ~   ~   ~

In the background rises what is apparently intended for the temple of a formal garden; and behind this again, a winged ass capers skittishly upon the summit of Mount Helicon.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 240   ~   ~   ~

This is _True Taste_, and whoso likes it not, Is blockhead, coxcomb, puppy, fool, and sot.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 335   ~   ~   ~

His "pleasures," as might be expected, like those of Goldsmith's Switzers, "are but low"-- To boon companions I my time would give, With players, pimps, and parasites I'd live.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 383   ~   ~   ~

As this, for instance--"The humbug _virtu_ is much more out of fashon here than in England, free thinking upon that & other topicks is more common here than amongst you if possible, old pictures & old stories fare's alike, a dark picture is become a damn'd picture."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 771   ~   ~   ~

Nor is the conception less happy of that amorous fine-gentleman ancestor of the Coverleys who first made love by squeezing the hand; or of that other Knight of the Shire who so narrowly escaped being killed in the Civil Wars because he was sent out of the field upon a private message, the day before Cromwell's "crowning mercy,"--the battle of Worcester.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,062   ~   ~   ~

"Among the rest of the idle diversions of the town," he says, "one musician was famous for acting a changeling [idiot or half-wit], which indeed he personated strangely."

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