Vulgar words in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 - Poems and Plays (Page 1)
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They found it heavy--no slight matter-- But tugg'd, and tugg'd it, till the clatter 'Woke Hercules, who in a trice Whipt up the knaves, and with a splice, He kept on purpose--which before Had served for giants many a score-- To end of Club tied each rogue's head fast; Strapping feet too, to keep them steadfast; And pickaback them carries townwards, Behind his brawny back head-downwards, (So foolish calf--for rhyme I bless X-- Comes _nolens volens_ out of Essex); Thinking to brain them with his _dextra_, Or string them up upon the next tree.
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So lordly Juan, damn'd to lasting fame, Went out a pickle, and came back the same.
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Why they came down is to me all a riddle, And left HALLELUJAH broke off in the middle: Jove's Court, and the Presence angelical, cut-- To eke out the work of a lazy young slut.
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Condemn them--damn them--hiss them, if you will-- Their author is your grateful servant still!
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Damn order, and method, and steps, and degrees, that he speaks of.
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SECOND GENTLEMAN Damn politics, they spoil drinking.
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You keep no whore, sir?
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Damn it, a man had better be without a nose, than without a name.
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MR. H. But then my name--damn my name.
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SECOND GENTLEMAN Damn him, I will affront him.
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damn it, I said, augment it.
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Canon Ainger gives "Damn"] * * * * * COMMENDATORY VERSES Page 61.
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The third line recalls Pope's line-- See Cromwell damn'd to everlasting fame.
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Writing to Moxon in 1833 he says, "I wish you would omit 'by the Author of Elia' now, in advertising that damn'd 'Devil's Wedding.'"
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I could not resist so facile and moderate demand: so scribbled out another, omitting sundry things, such as the witch story, about half the forest scene (which is too leisurely for _story_), and transposing that damn'd soliloquy about England getting drunk, which like its reciter stupidly stood alone nothing prevenient, or antevenient, and cleared away a good deal besides ...
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In 1802 he said "(_dashing his glass down_) Pshaw, damn these acorn cups, they would not drench a fairy.
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The quantity of friends we had in the house my brother and I being in Public Offices &c. was astonishing--but they yielded at length to a few hisses--"a hundred hisses--damn the word, I write it like kisses--how different--a hundred hisses outweigh 1000 claps.