Vulgar words in The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I (Page 1)
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Deformed persons, and eunuchs, and old men, and bastards, are envious.
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Almost five thousand years agone, there were Pilgrims walking to the Celestial City, as these two honest persons are; and _Beelzebub_, _Apollyon_, and _Legion_, with their Companions, perceiving by the path that the Pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this Town of _Vanity_, they contrived here to set up a Fair; a Fair wherein should be sold of _all sorts of Vanity_, and that it should last all the year long: therefore at this Fair are all such Merchandise sold, as Houses, Lands, Trades, Places, Honors, Preferments, Titles, Countries, Kingdoms, Lusts, Pleasures, and Delights of all sorts, as Whores, Bawds, Wives, Husbands, Children, Masters, Servants, Lives, Blood, Bodies, Souls, Silver, Gold, Pearls, Precious Stones, and what not.... Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this Town where this lusty Fair is kept; and he that will go to the City, and yet not go through this Town, must needs _go out of the World_.
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You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes, or endeavoring to move the passions; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such a height.
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And yet, with all his faults, he sets up to be a universal reformer and corrector of abuses, a remover of grievances; rakes into every slut's corner of nature, bringing hidden corruptions to the light; and raises a mighty dust where there was none before, sharing deeply all the while in the very same pollutions he pretends to sweep away.
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In short, the gay, the loud, the vain Will Honeycomb, who had made love to every great fortune that has appeared in town for above thirty years together, and boasted of favors from ladies whom he had never seen, is at length wedded to a plain country girl.