Vulgar words in The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (Page 1)
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[1] Remember in the first line to read "_loud_ the winds whistle," instead of "round," which that blockhead Ridge had inserted by mistake, and makes nonsense of the whole stanza.
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I have been _transporting_ a servant, [3] who cheated me,--rather a disagreeable event;--performing in private theatricals; [4]--publishing a volume of poems (at the request of my friends, for their perusal);--making love,--and taking physic.
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[1] ..........in his age His scenes alone had damn'd our singing stage; But Managers for once cried, "hold, enough!"
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I am very happy here, because I loves oranges, and talks bad Latin to the monks, who understand it, as it is like their own,--and I goes into society (with my pocket-pistols), and I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhoea and bites from the mosquitoes.
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With these two phrases, and a third, 'Avra louro', which signifieth "Get an ass," I am universally understood to be a person of degree and a master of languages.
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Seville is a fine town, and the Sierra Morena, part of which we crossed, a very sufficient mountain; but damn description, it is always disgusting.
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I can swear in Turkish; but, except one horrible oath, and "pimp," and "bread," and "water," I have got no great vocabulary in that language.
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"It was," says Moore, "if I recollect right, in making love to one of these girls that he had recourse to an act of courtship often practised in that country;--namely, giving himself a wound across the breast with his dagger.
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To quit this new idea for something you will understand better, how are Miss R's, the W's, and Mr. R's blue bastards?
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I shall separate the mill from Mr. B--'s farm, for his son is too gay a deceiver to inherit both, and place Fletcher in it, who has served me faithfully, and whose wife is a good woman; besides, it is necessary to sober young Mr. B--, or he will people the parish with bastards.
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Who would think that anybody would be such a blockhead as to sin against an express proverb, 'Ne sutor ultra crepidam'?
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Byron's reply was the passage in 'English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers' (lines 973-980; see also the notes), where Clarke is described as "A would-be satirist, a hired Buffoon, A monthly scribbler of some low Lampoon," etc.
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[Footnote 1: "Give but an Englishman his whore and ease, Beef and a sea-coal fire, he's yours for ever."
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If David, when his toils were ended, Had heard these blockheads sing before him, To us his psalms had ne'er descended: In furious mood he would have tore 'em!"