Vulgar words in The Great German Composers (Page 1)

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blockhead x 1
buffoon x 2
snag x 1
            

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Determined that his young son should become a doctor like himself, and leave the divine art to Italian fiddlers and French buffoons, he did not allow him to go to a public school even, for fear he should learn the gamut.

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The characteristic reply was a Parthian arrow: "Vat te tevil I trow my money away for dat vich the blockhead vish'?

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Only by your bermission, I vill dake a snag of your ham, andt a slice of French roll, or a modicum of chicken; for to dell you the honest fagd, I am all pote famished, for I laid me down on mine billow in bed the lastd nightd widout mine supper, at the instance of mine physician, for which I am not altogeddere inglined to extend mine fastd no longer.'

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The buffoon also laid himself on a chair, and had it carried about the room, during which he threw out his limbs in imitation of the act of swimming.

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