Vulgar words in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 (Page 1)
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The comical sketch of their rhetoric in "Salmagundi" is literally true:--"Every day have these slangwhangers made furious attacks on each other and upon their respective adherents, discharging their heavy artillery, consisting of large sheets loaded with scoundrel, villain, liar, rascal, numskull, nincompoop, dunderhead, wiseacre, blockhead, jackass."
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and to inane, drivelling, doting books, the bastard progeny of vanity and ignorance,--books over which one dawdles in an amusing dream and pleasant spasm of amazement, and which teach us wisdom as tipsy Helots taught the Spartan boys sobriety.
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So into the yard went "Olivante de Laura, the nonsensical old blockhead," "rough and dull Florismart of Hyrcania," "noble Don Platir," with nothing in him "deserving a grain of pity," Bernardo del Carpio, and Roncesvalles, and Palmerin de Oliva.
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If ever I seek for immortality here, may I be damn'd, for there's not much danger in a poet's being damn'd,-- 'Damnation follows death in other men, But your damn'd Poet lives and writes agen.'"
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But, after all, 'tis my best irony quite thrown away; for the foolish boy will believe me quite in earnest, and will still be making love to that jade, Mistress Fame, although he knows well enough how many she has jilted.
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Do you think the deformed gentleman means to make love to Iris?--I said.