Vulgar words in The Spirit of the Age - Contemporary Portraits (Page 1)
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They are the proper issue of his brain, lawfully begot, not foundlings, nor the "bastards of his art."
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In the latter case, or where a vein of sarcasm or irony is resorted to, the ridicule is not barbed by some allusion (false or true) to private history; the object of it has brought the infliction on himself by some literary folly or political delinquency which is referred to as the understood and justifiable provocation, instead of being held up to scorn as a knave for not being a tool, or as a blockhead for thinking for himself.