Vulgar words in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 (Page 1)
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It contains within itself a complete gradation from fashionable excellence to fashionable villany; from fashionable virtue to fashionable vice; fashionable ladies and gentlemen, fashionable pimps, demireps, and profligates.
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Another accomplishment, at which not a few of the fast fellows excel, is that of imitating upon a key-bugle various animals, in an especial manner the braying of an ass: when the fast fellows drive down to the Trafalgar at Greenwich, the Toy at Hampton Court, or the Swan at Henley upon Thames, the bugle-player mounts aloft, the rest of the fast fellows keeping a lookout for donkeys; when one is seen, a hideous imitative bray is set up by the man of music, and his quadrupedal brother, attracted by the congenial sound, rushes to the roadside--mutual recognition, with much merriment, is the result.
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But oh, John Chatterton, ye're an ass--a reg'lar donkey, as a body may say, to get into tiffs of passion, and send back a beautiful girl's letters, because some land-louping vagabond on the top of a coach told you some report or other about a Mr Smith"-- "_Captain_ Smith," said Chatterton, biting his lips; "he's a well known man; he was an ensign in this very regiment, succeeded to a large fortune, and retired: he's a very old man."
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"Then this Chatterton is an ass.
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"Perhaps the culprit had better be his own advocate--he will find the court very favourably disposed; and as the judge is herself at the Waterloo hotel"-- "Marion here!" exclaimed Chatterton; "good heavens, what an atrocious ass I have been!"