Vulgar words in Adventures Among Books (Page 1)
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Thus, in making love to Adeline, his daughter, the Marquis was, unconsciously, in an awkward position.
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Here Mr. Aytoun, with sympathy, writes "Damn her!"
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As for Smollett himself, he professedly "follows the plan" of Le Sage, in "Gil Blas" (a plan as old as Petronius Arbiter, and the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius); but he gives more place to "compassion," so as not to interfere with "generous indignation, which ought to animate the reader against the sordid and vicious disposition of the world."
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But how Smollett makes love!
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Elizabeth is wounded, and is carried to the Kirk of Field, and laid in Darnley's chamber, while Darnley goes out and makes love to my rural heroine, the lady of Fernilee, a Kerr.