Vulgar words in The Function of the Poet and Other Essays (Page 1)
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Till Dante's time the Italian poets thought no language good enough to put their nothings into but Latin,--and indeed a dead tongue was the best for dead thoughts,--but Dante found the common speech of Florence, in which men bargained and scolded and made love, good enough for him, and out of the world around him made a poem such as no Roman ever sang.
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On the other hand, Smollett is only funny, hardly witty, where he condenses all his wrath against the Dutch into an epigram of two lines: Amphibious creatures, sudden be your fall, May man undam you and God damn you all.
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And you who never fell through pride, You who in different sects were shammed, And come to see each other damned (So some folks told you--but they knew No more of Jove's designs than you)-- The world's mad business now is o'er, And I resent these pranks no more-- I to such blockheads set my wit!
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I damn such fools!
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I to such blockheads set my wit!
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I damn such fools!