Vulgar words in Life of Johnson, Volume 2 - 1765-1776 (Page 1)
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The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.'
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'Nay, Sir, but your Muse was not a whore.'
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Whoremonger is a dealer in whores[510], as ironmonger is a dealer in iron.
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Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, 'he was a blockhead[513];' and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, 'What I mean by his being a blockhead is that he was a barren rascal.'
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The woman's a whore, and there's an end on't.'
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The effect which it had upon Johnson was, to produce this pleasant observation to Mr. Seward, to whom he lent the book: 'This fellow must be a blockhead.
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'He was a blockhead for his pains.'
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He was told by Quin, that during the first night of its appearance it was long in a very dubious state; that there was a disposition to damn it, and that it was saved by the song[1101], 'Oh ponder well!
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--'Blockhead, (said he,) I'll write.'
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I never heard the word _blockhead_ applied to a woman before, though I do not see why it should not, when there is evident occasion for it[1344].
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for following June (p. 287), written, I have little doubt, by him, the profession is this savagely attacked:--'Our ancestors, in ancient times, had some regard to the moral character of the person sent to represent them in their national assemblies, and would have shewn some degree of resentment or indignation, had their votes been asked for murderer, an adulterer, a know oppressor, an hireling evidence, an attorney, a gamester, or pimp.'
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[513] Johnson had called Churchill 'a blockhead.'
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'I have remarked,' said Miss Reynolds, 'that his dislike of anyone seldom prompted him to say much more than that the fellow is a blockhead.'
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In like manner Goldsmith called Sterne a blockhead; for Mr. Forster (_Life of Goldsmith_, i.
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260) is, no doubt, right in saying that the author of _Tristram Shandy_ is aimed at in the following passage in _The Citizen of the World_ (Letter, 74):--'In England, if a bawdy blockhead thus breaks in on the community, he sets his whole fraternity in a roar; nor can he escape even though he should fly to nobility for shelter.'
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Sir Joshua offered a much better name to Goldsmith, saying, "You ought to call it _The Belle's Stratagem_, and if you do not I will damn it."
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That confessor said, "Damn him, he has told a great deal of truth, but where the devil did he learn it?"
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It is related, that he who devised the oath of abjuration, profligately boasted, that he had framed a test which should 'damn one half of the nation, and starve the other.'
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In one of the stories told by Murphy, Johnson is made to say, 'Damn the rascal.'