Vulgar words in Gossip in a Library (Page 1)
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She disdained the little feminine arts of her age: _Nor will in fading silks compose Faintly the inimitable rose, Fill up an ill-drawn bird, or paint on glass The Sovereign's blurr'd and indistinguished face, The threatening angel and the speaking ass_.
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She did not tottle up her milk-scores on the bastard-title.
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In a letter to her husband, referring to the attentions she herself receives from admirers, she adds: _Deshoulières cares not for the smart Her bright eyes cause, disdainful hussy, But, like a mouse, her idle heart Is captured by a pussy_.
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Byron mocked aloud, and, worse than all, the young men from whom so much had been expected, _les jeunes feroces_, leaped on the poor uncomplaining Ass like so many hunting-leopards.
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In the first part, a very wicked potter or itinerant seller of pots, Peter Bell, being lost in the woodland, comes to the borders of a river, and thinks to steal an ass which he finds pensively hanging its head over the water; Peter Bell presently discovers that the dead body of the master of the ass is floating in the river just below.
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Holding a hawthorn branch in hand, All bright with berries ripe and red; Into the cavern's mouth he peeps-- Thence back into the moonlight creeps; What seeks the boy?--the silent dead!_ It is when he wishes to describe how Peter Bell became aware of the dead body floating under the nose of the patient ass that Wordsworth loses himself in uncouth similes.