Vulgar words in Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 (Page 1)
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[31] When we add to these invectives, damnations of friends as well as foes, of companions, lawyers, men of letters, princes, philosophers, popes, pagans, innocent people as well as guilty, fools and wise, capable and incapable, men, women, and children,--it is really no better than a kind of diabolical sublimation of Lord Thurlow's anathemas in the _Rolliad_, which begins with "Damnation seize ye all;" and ends with "Damn them beyond what mortal tongue can tell, Confound, sink, plunge them all to deepest blackest hell."
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In the first were beheld Pimps and Seducers, scourged like children by horned devils; in the second, Flatterers, begrimed with ordure; in the third, Simonists, who were stuck like plugs into circular apertures, with their heads downwards, and their legs only discernible, the soles of their feet glowing with a fire which made them incessantly quiver.
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The Romagnese have all become bastards.
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There are no such devils as these in Dante; though Milton has something like them: "Devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds: men only disagree."
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But that same innocence, and that man's name, Have damn'd thee, Pisa, to a Theban fame?