Vulgar words in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 - Letters 1821-1842 (Page 1)
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I have been sadly disappointed in Talfourd, who does the critiques in the "Times," and who promised his strenuous services; but by some damn'd arrangement he was sent to the wrong house, and a most iniquitous account of Ali substituted for his, which I am sure would have been a kind one.
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I'll be damn'd if that isn't the line.
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I have got rid of my bad spirits, and hold up pretty well this rain-damn'd May.
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He did not like the world, and he has left it, as Alderman Curtis advised the Radicals, "If they don't like their country, damn 'em, let 'em leave it," they possessing no rood of ground in England, and he 10,000 acres.
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It is well she leaves me alone o' nights--the damn'd Day-hag _BUSINESS_.
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They keep dragging me on, a poor, worn mill-horse, in the eternal round of the damn'd magazine; but 'tis they are blind, not I. Colburn (where I recognise with delight the gay W. Honeycomb renovated) hath the ascendency.
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The name may be a misreading of Twiss (Horace Twiss, 1787-1849, politician, buffoon, and Mrs. Siddons' nephew), who was quite a likely person to be lied about in joke at that time.
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Dear C.--We are going off to Enfield, to Allsop's, for a day or 2, with some intention of succeeding them in their lodging for a time, for this damn'd nervous Fever (vide Lond.
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My friends are fairly surprised that you should set me down so unequivocally for an ass, as you have done, Page 1358.
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Dear N. You will not expect us to-morrow, I am sure, while these damn'd North Easters continue.
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Don't waste your wit upon that damn'd Dry Salter.
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I had a Sire, that at plain Crambo Had hit you o'er the pate a damn'd blow.
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As I say to her, ass _in praesenti_ rarely makes a wise man _in futuro_.
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"Ass _in praesenti_."
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Mary does not immediately want Books, having a damn'd consignment of Novels in MS. from Malta: which I wish the Mediterranean had in its guts.
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We are poor travellers, and moreover we have company (damn 'em) good people, Mr. Hone and an old crony not seen for 20 years, coming here on Tuesday, one stays night with us, and Mary doubts my power to get up time enough, and comfort enough, to be so far as you are.
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He is a damn'd fine musician, and what is better, a good man and true.
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When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, "Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!"
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Damn the King, lords, commons, and _specially_ (as I said on Muswell Hill on a Sunday when I could get no beer a quarter before one) all Bishops, Priests and Curates.
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Lest those raptures in this honeymoon of my correspondence, which you avow for the gentle person of my Nuncio, after passing through certain natural grades, as Love, Love and Water, Love with the chill off, then subsiding to that point which the heroic suitor of his wedded dame, the noble-spirited Lord Randolph in the play, declares to be the ambition of his passion, a reciprocation of "complacent kindness,"--should suddenly plump down (scarce staying to bait at the mid point of indifference, so hungry it is for distaste) to a loathing and blank aversion, to the rendering probable such counter expressions as this,--"Damn that infernal twopenny postman" (words which make the not yet glutted inamorato "lift up his hands and wonder who can use them.")
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What damn'd Unitarian skewer-soul'd things the general biographies turn out.
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Kenney has just assured me, that he has just touch'd £100 from the theatre; you are a damn'd fool if you don't exact your Tythe of him, and with that assurance I rest Your Brother fool C.L.
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I take Forster's name to be John, But you know whom I mean, the Pym-praiser not pimp-raiser.
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I like most "King Death;" glorious 'bove all, "The Lady with the Hundred Rings;" "The Owl;" "Epistle to What's his Name" (here may be I'm partial); "Sit down, Sad Soul;" "The Pauper's Jubilee" (but that's old, and yet 'tis never old); "The Falcon;" "Felon's Wife;" damn "Madame Pasty" (but that is borrowed); Apple-pie is very good, And so is apple-pasty; But-- O Lard!
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I wish you would omit "by the author of Elia," _now_, in advertising that damn'd "Devil's Wedding."
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Swallow your damn'd dinner and your brandy and water fast-- & come immediately I want to take Knowles in to Emma's only female friend for 5 minutes only, and we are free for the even'g.
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Mrs. W. was taken so last night, that Mary was obliged at midnight to knock up Mrs. Waller to come and sit up with her.
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The little bastard is gone.
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I love the sonnet to my heart, and you _shall_ finish it, and I'll be damn'd if I furnish a line towards it.
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But do not if it be irksome to yourself,--such as shall make you say, 'damn it, here's Lamb's box come again.'
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Lloyd and Lloyd and White his sarcastic propositions for Coleridge the quarrel with Coleridge on Wither and Quarles on _Rosamund Gray_ on Southey's "Eclogues" on Marlowe on the "Ancient Mariner" and his tailor his appeal for a poor friend on his mind on poems on dumb creatures his epitaph on Ensign Peacock on Blakesware on alcoholic beverages and mathematics on Lloyd and Mary Hayes on Bishop Burnet on _Falstaff's Letters_ among the Blue-stockings as a linguist on Hetty's death on Lake society on narrow means on Oxford his joke against Gutch on the "Gentle Charles" the use of the final "e" by punch-light as a consoler and the snakes his praise of London he takes in Manning and Godwin's supper his Epilogue for "Antonio" on the failure of "Antonio" on his Cambridge plans on the _Lyrical Ballads_ his move to Mitre Court Buildings his namesake on his religious state in 1801 at Margate on Godwin's courtship his dramatic suggestions on Napoleon his spare figure at the Lakes his project for collaborating with Coleridge on children's books on Napoleon and Cromwell on Chapman's _Homer_ on Milton's prose on Cellini on Independent Tartary on Coleridge's _Poems_, 3rd edition his 1803 holiday his adventure at sea his difficulties as a reviewer ceases to be a journalist his miserliness on old books his motto his portrait by Hazlitt on John Wordsworth's death on brawn on his sister his portrait by Hancock on pictures on Nelson in unsettled state on Manning's departure for China on "Mr. H." and Hazlitt scolded reconciled to Godwin and Hazlitt's "death" his difference with Godwin at Hazlitt's wedding on painter-authors and the Sheridans on moving on critics on the choice of a wife criticises Mr. Lloyd's _Homer_ visits Hazlitt his books on titles of honour a list of friends on Wither on epitaphs his aquavorousness a servant difficulty and Hazlitt's _Chronicle_ appointment on the _Excursion_ and _The Champion_ blown up by Hazlitt his new book room and Gifford a landed proprietor on Wordsworth's 1815 poems on Vincent Bourne his office work on presents on the India House shackles his diffidence as a critic on his sister's illnesses he lies to Manning on Coleridge and Wordsworth on _Christabel_ his borrowed good things on Australia on distant correspondents as matter-of-lie man his Hogarths on the plague of friends his after-dinner speeches on _Peter Bell_ on Mackery End on _The Waggoner_ on two inks his proposal to Miss Kelly at Cambridge on William Wordsworth on other C L.'s on Lord Byron on book-borrowing at Haydon's and Leigh Hunt and his aunt's cake in praise of pig on death his efforts for Godwin his directions for seeing Paris and his child-wife on India House on Shelley on Godwin's case and Scott on Moore on Defoe his epigram on Wadd on George Fox as _Elia_ on the advantages of routine on publishers his propensity to lie on Fox on Quakers on India House in Parnassus, 651 his after-dinner speeches on Fox on Colebrooke Cottage makes his will at the Mansion House on Physiology on Marlowe and Goethe his cold not a good man on monetary gifts and Thackeray on booksellers breaking Hazlitt on resignation his release his pension on fish ill on magazine payment on puns on Hood's _Odes_ on Signor Velluti on the death of children lines to Hone his last _London_ article on Hood on Quarles and Herbert on stationery on Manning on a cold on Brook Pulham's etching on Hastings on Fletcher's play on publishers his autobiography on Sunday his savings on Randal Norris at Goddard House School and Mrs. Norris's pension his criticism of Patmores Chatsworth his difficulties with the drama on Cary on memorials on Albums on mad dogs his house at Enfield and Mathew's picture his epigram on the Edward crosses portraits of him on milestones on the Pilgrim's Progress his serenata for Cowden Clarke's marriage his favourite walk his namesake will write for antiquity his "Gypsy's Malison" his sonnet on Daniel Rogers on Thomas Aquinas on the Laureates his joke upon Robinson in London in 1829 and Mary Lamb's absence and the burden of leisure moves to the Westwoods on Defoe on Thomas Westwood on bankrupts on town and country asked to collect his _Specimens_ the journey from Fornham his turnip joke his skill at acrostics on an escapade and Merchant Taylors' boys and the Hone subscription on Music on Martin Burney visits London in 1830 on his critics and his will on incendiarism on Dyer's blindness on Christ's Hospital days on Coleridge's pension on Montgomery's "Common Lot" and the _Englishman's Magazine_ on FitzGerald's "Meadows in Spring" on Unitarians on his unsaleability on Coleridge's imagined affront on "Rose Aylmer" his pensioners his advice on speculation spurious letter of mistaken for a murderer his sonnet on women's names and the _Elia_ lawsuit injury to his leg on John Taylor, 966. leaves Enfield for Edmonton on the _Last Essays of Elia_ his gift of Milton to Wordsworth at Widford his coffin nails on Emma Isola's marriage reads the _Inferno_ his London holiday his request for books on Mr. Fuller Russell's poetry on Coleridge's death on his excesses at Gary's his jokes on widows his name child Procter's "Epistle" to Elizabeth, her death and her daughter and John Lamb, jr. and her sister-in-law John, his querulousness his death the younger, his accident and the tragedy on Coleridge his pamphlet his portrait of Milton knocks down Hazlitt death of Mrs. John.