Vulgar words in Lectures on the English Poets - Delivered at the Surrey Institution (Page 1)

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But 'tis the Fall degrades her to a whore: Let Greatness own her, and she's mean no more.

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The wit of cheats, the courage of a whore, Are what ten thousand envy and adore; All, all look up with reverential awe, At crimes that 'scape or triumph o'er the law; While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry: Nothing is sacred now but villainy.

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The exclamation of _Mrs. Peachum_, when her daughter marries _Macheath_, "Hussy, hussy, you will be as ill used, and as much neglected, as if you had married a lord," is worth all Miss Hannah More's laboured invectives on the laxity of the manners of high life!

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-- Maul'd human wit in one thick satire; Next in three books spoil'd human nature: Undid Creation at a jerk, And of Redemption made damn'd work.

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--In Mr. Coleridge's Ode to an Ass's Foal, in his Lines to Sarah, his Religious Musings; and in his and Mr. Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, _passim_.

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