Vulgar words in The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05 (Page 1)
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_Van Her._ This is news would kindle a thousand bonfires, and make us piss them out again in Rhenish wine.
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_Enter the Emperor, unseen by them._ _Ind._ My rebel's punishment would easy prove; You know you're in my power, by making love.
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Ah sex, invented first to damn mankind!
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[_Turning from him._ _Aur._ Too cruelly your innocence you tell: Shew heaven, and damn me to the pit of hell.
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[1] In the mean time we may take notice, that where the poet ought to have preserved the character as it was delivered to us by antiquity, when he should have given us the picture of a rough young man, of the Amazonian strain, a jolly huntsman, and both by his profession and his early rising a mortal enemy to love, he has chosen to give him the turn of gallantry sent him to travel from Athens to Paris, taught him to make love, and transformed the Hippolitus of Euripides into Monsieur Hippolite.
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I dare answer for him, he would be more uneasy in their company, than he was with Crispinus, their forefather, in the Holy Way; and would no more have allowed them a place amongst the critics, than he would Demetrius the mimic, and Tigellius the buffoon; --_Demetri, teque, Tigelli, Discipulorum inter jubeo plorare cathedras._ With what scorn would he look down on such miserable translators, who make doggrel of his Latin, mistake his meaning, mis-apply his censures, and often contradict their own?
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_Vent._ My most illustrious pandar, No fine set speech, no cadence, no turned periods, But a plain home-spun truth, is what I ask: I did, myself, o'erhear your queen make love To Dolabella.
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_Ant._ The original villain sure no God created; He was a bastard of the sun, by Nile, Aped into man; with all his mother's mud Crusted about his soul.