Vulgar words in Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 - With His Letters and Journals (Page 1)
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Damn your Timothy!--I tell you, woman, your husband has _murdered me_--he has carried away my fine jubilee clothes.'
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Damn Reform--I want a place--what say you?
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"Clock strikes--going out to make love.
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"Dined--(damn this pen!)
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"It is a difficult part to play amongst such a set of assassins and blockheads--but, when the scum is skimmed off, or has boiled over, good may come of it.
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Lord * *, as you will see by his volume of Essays, if it reaches you, has a very sly, dry, and pithy way of putting sound truths, upon politics and manners, and whatever scheme we adopt, he will be a very useful and active ally in it, as he has a pleasure in writing quite inconceivable to a poor hack scribe like me, who always feel, about my art, as the French husband did when he found a man making love to his (the Frenchman's) wife:--' Comment, Monsieur,--sans y être _obligé_!'
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It is hard that I should have all the buffoons in Britain to deal with--_pirates_ who _will_ publish, and _players_ who _will_ act--when there are thousands of worthy men who can get neither bookseller nor manager for love nor money.
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What curst fools those speculating buffoons must be _not_ to see that it is unfit for their fair--or their booth!"
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By no means: the kick of an ass or the sting of a wasp may be painful to those who would find nothing agreeable in the braying of the one or the buzzing of the other.
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_Curd_ of _ass_'s milk.
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I do not know whether I sent you my 'Elegy on the _recovery_ of Lady * *:'-- "Behold the blessings of a lucky lot-- My play is damn'd, and Lady * * _not_.
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"I had certainly answered your last letter, though but briefly, to the part to which you refer, merely saying, 'damn the controversy;' and quoting some verses of George Colman's, not as allusive to you, but to the disputants.
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"But now this sheet is nearly cramm'd, So, if _you will_, _I_ sha'n't be shamm'd, And if you _won't_, _you_ may be damn'd, My Murray.
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There need be no scruple, because, though I used sometimes to buffoon to myself, loving a quibble as well as the barbarian himself (Shakspeare, to wit)--'that, like a Spartan, I would sell my _life_ as _dearly_ as possible'--it never was my intention to turn it to personal, pecuniary account, but to bequeath it to a friend--yourself--in the event of survivorship.
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But it was not in a romantic mood, as I should have been once; and yet it was a _new_ woman, (that is, new to me,) and, of course, expected to be made love to.
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"If the errors _are_ in the MS. write me down an ass: they are _not_, and I am content to undergo any penalty if they be.
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Since I left England (and it is not for all the usual term of transportation) I have scribbled to five hundred blockheads on business, &c. without difficulty, though with no great pleasure; and yet, with the notion of addressing you a hundred times in my head, and always in my heart, I have not done what I ought to have done.
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I can only account for it on the same principle of tremulous anxiety with which one sometimes makes love to a beautiful woman of our own degree, with whom one is enamoured in good earnest; whereas, we attack a fresh-coloured housemaid without (I speak, of course, of earlier times) any sentimental remorse or mitigation of our virtuous purpose.