Vulgar words in The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 (Page 1)
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_The Honest Whore_.--There is in the second part of this play, where Bellafront, a reclaimed harlot, recounts some of the miseries of her profession, a simple picture of honor and shame, contrasted without violence, and expressed without immodesty; which is worth all the _strong lines_ against the harlot's profession, with which both parts of this play are offensively crowded.
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Hecate in Middleton has a son, a low buffoon: the hags of Shakspeare have neither child of their own, nor seem to be descended from any parent.
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[Footnote: "'Tis Pity she's a Whore."]
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_The same_.--"He would pronounce the word _Damn_ with such an emphasis as left a doleful echo in his auditors' ears a good while after."
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_Honest Whore_.]
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Not to tire the reader with perpetual reference to prints which he may not be fortunate enough to possess, it may be sufficient to remark, that the same tragic cast of expression and incident, blended in some instances with a greater alloy of comedy, characterizes his other great work, the _Marriage Alamode_, as well as those less elaborate exertions of his genius, the prints called _Industry_ and _Idleness_, _the Distrest Poet_, &c., forming, with the _Harlot's_ and _Rake's Progresses_, the most considerable, if not the largest class of his productions,--enough surely to rescue Hogarth from the imputation of being a mere buffoon, or one whose general aim was only to _shake the sides_.
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ho; and falls to calling me names, dizzard, ass, lunatic, moper, Bedlamite, Pseudo-Democritus.
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Damn it, a man had better be without a nose, than without a name.
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_Mr. H._ But then my name--damn my name!
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Damn him, I will affront him.
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damn it, I said augment it.
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Damn order, and method, and steps, and degrees, that he speaks of.
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Damn politics, they spoil drinking.
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You keep no whore, sir?