Vulgar words in Andrew Marvell (Page 1)
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His enemies were numerous and powerful, both in the House of Commons and at Court, where all the buffoons and ladies of pleasure hated him, because--so Evelyn says--"he thwarted some of them and stood in their way."
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[148:1] Our most religious king had nineteen bastards, but no lawful issue.
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Bishop Burnet calls Marvell "a droll," Parker, who was to be a bishop, calls him "a buffoon."
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The Church and the House of Commons, full as the latter was of his pimps and pensioners, were as obstinate as mules in this matter of toleration.
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_Brit._ A colony of French possess the Court, Pimps, priests, buffoons, i' the privy-chamber sport.
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Among the masters of English prose it would be rash to rank Marvell, who was neither a Hooker nor a Taylor.
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for Kingston-upon-Hull, 78; attended opening of Parliament (1659), 80; is not a "Rumper," 84; again elected for Hull (1660), 84; begins his remarkable correspondence with the Corporation of Hull, 84; a satirist, not an enthusiast, 85; lines on Restoration, 90; complains to House of exaction of £150 for release of Milton, 91; elected for third, and last, time member for Hull, 95; receives fee from Corporation of Hull for attendance at House, 96; reviled by Parker for taking this payment, 96; _Flagellum Parliamentum_ attributed to, 97; goes to Holland, 100; is recalled, 101; while in Holland writes to Trinity House and to the Corporation of Hull on business matters, 101; goes as secretary to Lord Carlisle on an embassy to Sweden and Denmark, 106; public entry into Moscow, 108; assists at formal reception of Lord Carlisle as English ambassador, 109; renders oration to Czar into Latin, 109; Russians object to terms of oration, 109; replies, 109-12; returns from embassy, 113; reaches London, 113; attends Parliament at Oxford, 116; _The Last Instructions to a Painter about the Dutch Wars_, 129-35; bitter enemy of Hyde, 136; lines upon Clarendon House, 138; inquires into "miscarriages of the late war," 139; _The Rehearsal Transprosed_, 151; its great success, 152; literary method described by Parker, 162; called "a droll," "a buffoon," 163; replies to Parker, 163 _seq._; intercedes, 168; abused by Parker in _History of His Own Time_, 170 _n._; _The Rehearsall Transpros'd_ (second part), 171-2; pictures Parker, 172 _seq._; latterly fears subversion of Protestant faith, 179; his famous pamphlet, _An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England_, 180-1, 203-5, 206-8; gives account of quarrel with Dutch, 186-7; commendatory verses on "_Mr. Milton's Paradise Lost_" (1674), 199 _n._; mock speech, _His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to Both Houses of Parliament_, 200-2; story of proffered bribe, 209-10; last letter to constituents, 210; rarely speaks in the House of Commons, 211; longest reported speech, 211; speech reported in _Parliamentary History_ (1677), 211; "_Debate on Mr. Andrew Marvell's striking Sir Philip Harcourt_," etc., 212-14; friend of Prince Rupert, 214; lines on setting up of king's statue, 214-15; "Britannia and Raleigh," 216-19; dies, 219; thought to have been poisoned, 219; this suspicion dissipated, 220; account of sickness and death, 220-1; burial, 221; obsequies, 223; epitaph, 221; humour and wit, 163; not a fanatic, 179; insatiable curiosity, 182; power of self-repression, 211; as poet, 225-30; as satirist, 228, 230-1; as prose writer, 231-2; love of gardens, 227; appearance described, 232; Hull's most famous member, 223; enemies, 224; portraits of, 224; statue of, 224; editions of works, 229.