Vulgar words in Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II (Page 1)
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JOHNSON--'He was a blockhead for his pains!'
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But tell me, ye divines, which is the most virtuous man, he who begets twenty bastards, or he who sacrifices a hundred thousand lives?
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Scarcely any of the latter that ever I knew but, if they had parts, were buffoons.
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Aristophanes and Lucian, compared with moderns, were, the one a blackguard, and the other a buffoon.
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After Johnson's death she published a volume of her reminiscences of him, which may be allowed to have been worthy neither of him nor of her, and which was ridiculed by Peter Pindar in "A Town Eclogue," in which the rivals Bozzy and Piozzi, on Virgil's principle--_Alternis dicetis, amant alterna Camaenae_--relate in turn anecdotes of Johnson's way of life, his witty sayings, &c., &c. Sir John Hawkins, as judge of the contest, gives neither a prize; tells the lady, "Sam's Life, dear ma'am, will only _damn your own_;" calls the gentleman "a chattering magpie;" and-- Then to their pens and paper rush'd the twain, To kill the mangled RAMBLER o'er again.]