Vulgar words in Devereux — Complete (Page 1)
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He once thought I was dull enough to damn my fortune, and then he had some strange doubts for my soul; now he thinks me wise enough to become prosperous, and it is astonishing what a respect he has conceived for my principles."
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As for the present, he writes poems, makes love, is still good-natured, humorous, and odd; is rather unhappily addicted to wine and borrowing, and rigidly keeps that oath of the Carthusians which never suffers them to carry any money about them."
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"Hang the slut: don't talk of her.
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If thou wantest to make love, there are ladies in plenty whom thou needest not to marry.
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It is a very odd circumstance, but it is very true, that the people we most despise have the most influence over our actions; a man never ruins himself by giving dinners to his father, or turning his house into a palace in order to feast his bosom friend: on the contrary, 'tis the poor devil of a friend who fares the worst, and starves on the family joint, while mine host beggars himself to banquet "that disagreeable Mr. A., who is such an insufferable ass," and mine hostess sends her husband to the Fleet by vying with "that odious Mrs. B., who was always her aversion!"
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For Heaven's sake, let us leave panegyric to blockheads, and say something bitter to one another, or we shall die of _ennui_."
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"We believed so at the time, my Lord; but there are as many changes in the fashion of making love as there are in that of making dresses.
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"Yes," said Hamilton; "but if I remember right, it was at seeing an ass eat figs.
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Let us swear by the ghost of Philemon that we will never laugh at an ass's jokes,--practical or verbal."
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The party consisted of twenty: nine gentlemen of the court besides myself; four men of low rank and character, but admirable buffoons; and six ladies, such ladies as the Duke loved best,--witty, lively, sarcastic, and good for nothing.
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But the most amusing personages were the buffoons: they mimicked and joked, and lampooned and lied, as if by inspiration.
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As the bottle circulated, and talk grew louder, the lampooning and the lying were not, however, confined to the buffoons.
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"Fond!" and the little man sank his voice into a whisper; "he is the sublimest buffoon that ever existed.
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The well, said the monk, lay not above a mile out of the customary way to the monastery; and after _we_ had finished the flask of wine, we sallied out on our excursion,--the monk upon a stately and strong ass, myself on foot.
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He entered no village, borne upon an ass laden with twin sacks, for the purpose of sanctimoniously robbing the inhabitants; no profane songs were ever heard resounding from his dwelling by the peasant incautiously lingering at a late hour too near its vicinity; my guide, the monk, complained bitterly of his unsociability, and no scandalous legend of nymph-like comforters and damsel visitants haunting the sacred dwelling escaped from the garrulous friar's well-loaded budget.