Vulgar words in Halleck's New English Literature (Page 1)
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In one of his late satires, _The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot_, he charged Addison with the inclination to-- "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer."
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Carlyle had a large fund of incisive wit and humor, which often appear in picturesque setting, as when he said to a physician: "A man might as well pour his sorrows into the long hairy ear of a jackass."