Vulgar words in The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 2 bastard x 1 blockhead x 2 damaged goods x 1 damn x 2

make love x 3

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Scott himself has left no solid poem, but instead, loose, rambling, spirited, metrical romances--the bastards of his genius--and a great family of legitimate chubby children of novels, bearing the image, but not reaching the full stature, of their parent's mind.

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I only wish you could make love as well as you make verses.

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COUNT.--And how should I make love?

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"Damn the respondent," said John Ayliffe, "but she shall smart for it."

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"Gone?--Yes.--Do you mean my mother?--Damn it, yes!--She is gone, to be sure.--Didn't you meet her?"

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Twelve to three, they then separate Taddeo, Von Apsbury and myself, and placing us in rickety carriages, take one of us to prison, another to the frontier, and hurry me on board a miserable little vessel, from which they tumble me like a package of damaged goods on the _quai_ of Marseilles.

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But, at any rate, there is quite enough to make her a great prize, and an object of admiration and attention to all the little men--not to the old hands, like White and Sumner; they are built up in their own conceit, and wouldn't marry Sam Weller's 'female marchioness,' unless she made love to them first, like one of Knowles's heroines.

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Let us hear his own account: "Being thus an ass, in the midst of asses, and under an ass, I translated Cornelius Nepos, some of Virgil's _Eclogues_, and such-like; we wrote stupid, nonsensical themes, so that in any well-directed school we should have been a wretched fourth class.

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between the enlightened scholar and the dunce of to-day, than there was between the monkish alchemist and the blockhead of yesterday?

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Peasant, voter, and dunce of this century are no doubt wiser than the churl, burgher, and blockhead of the twelfth.

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