Vulgar words in Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) (Page 1)

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ass x 1
blockhead x 2
damn x 1
make love x 4
whore x 2
            

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In private life he would have been called an honest blockhead; and Fortune that made him a king, added nothing to his happiness, only prejudiced his honesty, and shortened his days.

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"Yes, damn you," cried someone, "and for our chattels, too."

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A man not only scorned to marry a woman of family less illustrious than his own, but even to make love to her--"the pedigree is much more considered by them than either the complexion or features of their mistresses.

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That Rémond made love to her there can be little doubt.

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Then turns repentant, and his God adores With the same spirit that he drinks and whores; Enough, if all around him but admire, And now the punk applaud, and now the friar.

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as early as I knew This town, I had the sense to hate it too: Yet here, as e'en in hell, there must be still One giant vice, so excellently ill. That all beside, one pities, not abhors: As who knows Sappho, smiles at other whores."

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She endeavoured to sweeten him by very exorbitant praises of his person, which might even have been mistaken for making love from a woman of less celebrated virtue; and concluded her oration with pious warnings to him, to avoid the conversation of one so unworthy his regard as myself, who to her certain knowledge loved another man.

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That thing of silk; Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?

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I find the spirit of patriotism so strong in me every time I see them, that I look on them as the greatest blockheads in nature; and, to say truth, the compound of booby and _petit maître_ makes up a very odd sort of animal."

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Ladies that can resolve to make love thus _extempore_, may pass unobserved, especially if they can content themselves with low life, where fear may oblige their favourites to secrecy: there wants only a very lewd constitution, a very bad heart, and a moderate understanding, to make this conduct easy: and I do not doubt it has been practised by many prudes beside her I am now speaking of.

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