Vulgar words in A Wanderer in Venice (Page 1)
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I like too the picture of Christ on a white ass in the right transept, with the children laying their cloaks in His way.
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He lodged first in the Frezzeria, and at once set to work upon employments so dissimilar as acquiring a knowledge of the Armenian language in the monastery on the island of San Lazzaro and making love to the wife of his landlord.
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I love the language, that soft bastard Latin Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin, With syllables which breathe of the sweet South, And gentle liquids gliding all so pat in, That not a single accent seems uncouth, Like our harsh northern whistling, grunting guttural, Which were obliged to hiss, and spit and sputter all.
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If Venice is the bride of the Adriatic, Burano is the kitchen slut.
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_Q._ That fellow dressed like a buffoon, with the parrot on his wrist,--for what purpose is _he_ introduced into the canvas?
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_Q._ Were you commissioned by any person to paint Germans and buffoons, and such-like things in this picture?
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_Q._ Does it appear to you fitting that at our Lord's last supper you should paint buffoons, drunkards, Germans, dwarfs, and similar indecencies?
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_Q._ Do you not know that in a painting like the Last Judgment, where drapery is not supposed, dresses are not required, and that disembodied spirits only are represented; but there are neither buffoons, nor dogs, nor armour, nor any other absurdity?
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This they did, and the lion was ever attached to the monastery, one of its duties being to take care of an ass.
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For hours this idle maiden balanced herself half over the balcony rail in perusal of the people under her, and I suspect made love at that distance, and in that constrained position, to some one in the crowd.
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"He who mounts an ass, has one shame; he who falls from it, has two."