Vulgar words in The Works of Henry Fielding - Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12 (Page 1)
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If thou wilt write against all these reasons get a patron, be pimp to some worthless man of quality, write panegyricks on him, flatter him with as many virtues as he has vices.
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I did, as you say, once make a small sally into Parnassus--took a sort of flying leap over Helicon; but if ever they catch me there again--sir, the town have a prejudice to my family; for, if any play could have made them ashamed to damn it, mine must.
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Sir, I only desire to live by my goods; and I hope you will be pleased to allow some difference between a neat fresh piece, piping hot out of the classicks, and old threadbare worn-out stuff that has past through every pedant's mouth and been as common at the universities as their whores.
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I see them--yes, I see them now before me: The monstrous, ugly, barb'rous sons of whores.
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I have a mind to hang myself, To think I should a grandmother be made By such a rascal!--Sure the king forgets When in a pudding, by his mother put, The bastard, by a tinker, on a stile Was dropp'd.--O, good lord Grizzle!
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In the balcony that o'erhangs the stage, I've seen a whore two 'prentices engage; One half-a-crown does in his fingers hold, The other shews a little piece of gold; She the half-guinea wisely does purloin, And leaves the larger and the baser coin.
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If this be true, all womankind are damn'd.
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What does the blockhead mean?
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Whilst from my garret, twice two stories high, I look'd abroad into the streets below, I saw Tom Thumb attended by the mob; Twice twenty shoe-boys, twice two dozen links, Chairmen and porters, hackney-coachmen, whores; Aloft he bore the grizly head of Grizzle; When of a sudden through the streets there came A cow, of larger than the usual size, And in a moment--guess, oh!
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But you are like all our modern criticks, who damn a man before they have heard a man out; when, if they would but stay till the joke came-- _Fust_.
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Made an ass of!
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Faith, sir, I can get no one to speak it; the actresses are so damn'd difficult to please.
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Faith, sir, it is my great misfortune that I can't; I deny myself a great pleasure, but cannot possibly stay--to hear such damn'd stuff as I know it must be.
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And now, if you please, rehearse the scene; take care you don't make this mistake any more though, for it would inevitably damn the play if you should.
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I have been damn'd Because I was your foe, and yet I still Courted your friendship with my utmost art.
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thou wert damn'd because thou didst pretend Thyself my friend; for hadst thou boldly dared, Like Hurlothrumbo, to deny me quite, Or, like an opera or pantomime, Profess'd the cause of Ignorance in publick, Thou might'st have met with thy desired success; But men can't bear even a pretence to me.
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I will do more--for Common Sense will stay Quite from your house, so may you not be damn'd.
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I here except that kind of raillery, therefore, which is concerned in tossing men out of their chairs, tumbling them into water, or any of those handicraft jokes which are exercised on those notable persons commonly known by the name of buffoons; who are contented to feed their belly at the price of their br--ch, and to carry off the wine and the p--ss of a great man together.
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Pleasantry (as the ingenious author of Clarissa says of a story) should be made only the vehicle of instruction; and thus romances themselves, as well as epic poems, may become worthy the perusal of the greatest of men: but when no moral, no lesson, no instruction, is conveyed to the reader, where the whole design of the composition is no more than to make us laugh, the writer comes very near to the character of a buffoon; and his admirers, if an old Latin proverb be true, deserve no great compliments to be paid to their wisdom.
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Then stepping to the kitchen door, with an audible voice he called the ostler, and in a very graceful accent said, "D--n your blood, you cock-eyed son of a bitch, bring me my boots!
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Having pleased himself vastly with this performance, he shook the landlord by the hand with great good-humour, and said," By G-- you seem to be an honest fellow, and good blood; if you'll come and see me in London, I'll give you your skinful of wine, and treat you with a play and a whore every night you stay.