Vulgar words in Old and New Masters (Page 1)
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Dostoevsky's characters describe the execution of a criminal, the whipping of an ass, the torture of a child.
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He was a little shocked; he would have liked to draw a veil; he did not approve of a young man who could make love in language so unlike the measured ardour of one of Miss Austen's heroes.
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The characterizations of Addison as Atticus, and of Lord Hervey as Sporus: Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk-- Sporus, "the bug with gilded wings"--are portraits one may almost call beautiful in their bitter phrasing.
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Whoever, therefore, calls me a woman-hater is a blockhead, a liar, or a noodle.
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He had the cavalier poet's gift of making love seem a profession rather than a passion.
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The old red shall be floated again When the ranks that are thin shall be thinned, When the names that are twenty are ten; When the devil's riddle is mastered And the galley-bench creaks with a Pope, We shall see Buonaparte the bastard Kick heels with his throat in a rope.