Vulgar words in The Bed-Book of Happiness (Page 1)

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ass x 3
buffoon x 1
damn x 1
knocked up x 1
make love x 2
            

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: Goethe's Mother 28 MACAULAY, LORD: "Boswell and Johnson" 102 Macaulay's Wit 290 MERIVALE, CHARLES: From the Greek Anthology 313 MONTAIGNE: Odours and Moustaches 415 PERCY ANECDOTES: The Great Condé 2 A Classical Ass 3 Memory 4 "Come in Here" 4 A Pope Innocent 5 A Good Paraphrase 5 Irish Priest 6 A Digression 7 Fortune-teller 7 Gasconades 8 Tribute to Beauty 8 Begging Quarter 9 Gascon Reproved 9 Absent Man 11 Pride 12 Witty Coward 12 Valuing Beauty 12 Pro Aris et Focis 14 PRIOR, MATTHEW: Epigrams 345 RELIGIO MEDICI: The Happiness of Sir Thomas Browne 244 RICHTER: Theisse 1 Broken Studies 1 ROBINSON, CRABB: Your Hat, Sir 191 SAINTE-BEUVE: The Charming Frenchman: Bossuet, Rousseau, Joubert, Mme D'Houdetot, Mme de Rémusat, Diderot, La Bruyère 269 SELDEN, JOHN: Table-talk of John Selden 309 SMITH, ALEXANDER: Dreamthorp 418 SMITH, SYDNEY: A Little Moral Advice 360 Mrs. Partington 363 STEPHEN, J.K.: In a Visitor's Book 126 A Sonnet 345 STERNE: The Supper 118 The Grace 120 Uncle Toby and the Fly 277 STOW: Old London Sports 314 THACKERAY: Letters from Thackeray 406 THOMSON, MISS E.G.

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A CLASSICAL ASS [Sidenote: _Percy Anecdotes_] The ass, though the dullest of all unlaughing animals, is reported to have once accomplished a great feat in the way of exciting laughter.

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Happening one day, however, to stray into the fields, he espied an ass browsing on thistles; and in this there appears to have been something so eminently ridiculous in those days that the man who never laughed before could not help laughing at it outright.

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Alvanley was a good speaker; and, having made some allusion to O'Connell in rather strong terms in the House of Lords, the latter very coarsely and unjustly denounced him, in a speech he made in the House of Commons, as a bloated buffoon.

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All his books are written in a learned language; in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse; in a language in which nobody ever quarrels, or drives bargains, or makes love; in a language in which nobody ever thinks.

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As the malignity of the devil would have it, we were kept abroad _two years longer_ than our time, Mr. Pitt (England not being so tame then as she is now[7]) having knocked up a dust with Spain about Nootka Sound.

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I am no believing old and rotten superstition of ancient forefathers, but am iconoclast smashing idols to detriment of damn scoundrels.

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He had beautiful eyes, and his lips were the same, And his voice was as soft as a flute-- Like a Lord or a Marquis he looked, when he came To make love in his master's best suit.

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