Vulgar words in The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 1
blockhead x 3
damn x 7
make love x 2
pimp x 1
            

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My great uncle was, with reverence be it spoken, a great blockhead; but that was no fault of his, he being a younger brother, and the family genius being vested in my grandfather, with remainder to his sons in tail male.

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All you, my pimps, parasites, and pensioners--my leading mistresses and led captain--my mummers and melo-dramatists, who conspire to drill holes in the breeches-pockets of John Bull, that his coin may not corrode for want of circulation; if ever this fellow enters my house again, with his deer-stealing Stratford vagabond under his arm, tie them both up in a hopsack, and throw them into the Thames!

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Vaughan stamped on the floor, clenched his fist, struck his thigh, and cried out in a loud voice, "damn you, ye black-guards--I wish I had you here--I'd soon settle you."

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Study _me_, and talk like a gentleman, and be damn'd to ye.

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I am never otherwise when _I think_ of your lordship's proposals--but when you are making love and fine speeches to me in person, 'tis with amazing difficulty I can help laughing.

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Why, I took you for an unobserving blockhead, or I would never have trusted you so near me.

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I fancy it was in one of your most decided unobserving fits that you took _me_ for a blockhead.

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(_enter Ponder_) Ponder, I say-- _Pon._ I wish you wouldn't interrupt me, for I'm thinking-- _Char._ Damn your thinking, sir!

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you may break the tough heart of a sailor, but damn me if he will ever own it broke for love of you!

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but I will see her again, and obtain her forgiveness--fool, idiot, dolt, ass, that I am, to suffer my cursed temper to master reason and affection at the risk of losing the dearest blessing of life--a lovely and an amiable woman!

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_O'Ded._ Sir Rowland, I wish to treat you with respect--but when without a blush on your cheek you ask me to make myself a rascal, I must either be a scoundrel ready-made to your hands, for respecting you, or a damn'd hypocrite for pretending to do it--I see you are angry, sir, and I can't help that; and so, having delivered my message, for fear I should say any thing uncivil or ungenteel, I wish you a most beautiful good morning.

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_Sir W._ Damn the gout, I must be in a passion--my--life--harkye, daughter-- _Helen._ They know he's here!

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I'm out of leading-strings now, and madam, I'll manage you, damn me if--I--do--not!

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_Tiffany._ And I am sure I don't wonder at her being cross about it, for if I was my mistress I never would listen with patience (any more than she does) to such a disagreeable creature as my lord, while such a generous nice gentleman as you was ready to make love to me.

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