Vulgar words in Essays in Rebellion (Page 1)
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Peruse leaders for a week, and in the week following, with as much certainty as if you saw the animals emerging from the Ark, you will be able to say, "Here comes the laboured Ox, here the Wild Ass prances, here trips the Antelope with fairy footfall, here the Dromedary froths beneath his hump; there soars the Crested Screamer, there bolts the circuitous Hare, there old Behemoth wallows in the ooze, and there the swivel-eyed Chameleon clings along the fence."
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To damn with faint praise is the readiest defence of envious failure; but to praise with jealous damnation reveals a delicate generosity that few would look for in the hater of his kind.
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To read our story-tellers from Mr. Kipling downward, one might suppose the East End to be inhabited by bastards engaged in mutual murder, and the marvel is that anyone is left alive to be the subject of a tale.
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their Governors had fallen out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot."
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One such glimpse we are given in that book of _The Golden Ass_, now issued by the Clarendon Press, in Mr. H.E.
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The region where the Lucius of the book wandered, either as man, or after his own curiosity into mysterious things had converted him into an ass (whereas he had wished to become a beautiful bird)--the region recalls some wild picture of Salvator Rosa's.
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When one is troublesome, they propose to sew her up in the paunch of the yet living ass, and expose her to the mid-day sun.
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Yet Apuleius counted the sorrows of the ill-used ass, and, speaking of the same flour mill, he describes the old mules and pack-horses labouring there, with drooping heads, their necks swollen with gangrenes and putrid sores, their nostrils panting with the harsh cough that continually racked them, their chests ulcerated by the ceaseless rubbing of their hempen harness, their hoofs swollen to an enormous size as the result of their long journeys round the mill, their ribs laid bare even to the bone by their endless floggings, and all their hides rough with the scab of neglect and decay.
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I suppose people would say I'm too old to make love on a County Council bench.
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INDEX A Abdul Hamid, Angell, Norman, Antonines, Age of the, Apuleius, _Golden Ass_ of, Arbuthnot, Dr., Aristotle, definition of happiness, Arnold, Matthew, quoted, Augustine, Saint, Austria, Archduke Johann Salvator of, B Barcelona, Barnett, Canon, quoted, Birdwood, Sir George, quoted, Boer War, Börne, Ludwig, quoted, Bolivar, Booth, Charles, Brailsford, H.N., quoted, Brown, John, Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, Browning, Robert, Buddhist Nuns, Burke, Edmund, Burns, John, Byron, as catfish, quoted, as rebel, in Greece, on the poor, death, C Cade, Jack, Calvin, Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, Canning, Canterbury, Archbishop of, Carlyle, Thomas, on allurements, burning book, on Mammon, on Peterloo, on landowners, on heroes, on war, on Christ, on invalids, Chamfort, Clarkson, Mr., of the Education Office, Clough, Arthur, Coleridge, Conway, Moncure, Cooper, Thomas, Cowper, William, Cromwell, Curzon, Lord, D Dante, Danton, Darwin, Davids, Mrs. Rhys, Davitt, Michael, Deborah, Delany, E Eliot, George, quoted, Elliot, Ebenezer, Emerson, quoted, Emmet, Robert, F Farrar, Dean, Ferrer, of Barcelona, Finland, France, Anatole, Frazer, _The Golden Bough_, quoted, Free, Richard, Futurists, G Garibaldi, Gaunt, Elizabeth, burnt, George, Henry, Germany, her conquest of England imagined, Gibbon, quoted, Ginnell, Lawrence, M.P., Gladstone, foreign policy, arbitration, Goethe, preface, _Faust_, quoted, science, H Hague, The, Conferences, Hampden, John, Harmodius and Aristogeiton, Hebrews, Epistle to, quoted, Heine, Heinrich, Henley, W.E., quoted, Hobbes, Hobson, J.A., Hugo, Victor, Huxley, Thomas H., I Ibsen, quoted, India, treatment of rebels, our government of, Anglo-Indians, Ireland, Italy, J Jacques, M., of the West Coast, James, Prof. William, Jameson, Sir L. Starr, Joan of Arc, Johnson, Dr., on Hell, Jones, Ebenezer, Jones, Ernest, Judith, K Kant, quoted, Kingsley, Charles, quoted, Kipling, Rudyard, quoted or referred to, Kossuth, L Landor, quoted, Leopardi, quoted, Linton, William James, Lowell, J.R., quoted, Lynch, Dr., M.P., M Macaulay, quoted, in India, MacDonald, J. Ramsay, M.P.