Vulgar words in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 (Page 1)
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We had it in the wits and blockheads, the courtiers and the clowns, the opulent and the ruined, the brave and the pusillanimous--and all under the strangest pressure of those feelings which rouse the nature of man to its most undisguised display.
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"Let the pedant waste his oil, With the soldier all is sport; Let your blockheads make a coil In the cloister or the court; Let them fatten in their stall, We can fatten too--that's all!
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By the by, you haven't sent me Stickleback's jack-ass as you promised.
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"I have no hesitation," replied the critic, "with a perfect recollection of Canova's Venus, and even Moggs's Pandean Piper, which I reviewed in last number of the _Universal_, in declaring that Stickleback's work (it is a female, not a jack-ass) is the noblest effort of the English chisel; there is life about it--a power--a feeling--a sentiment--it is overwhelming!
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Stickleback's fame is secured by a stupendous ass, at once so simple and so grand."
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But Mr Whalley, who was a rival Mæcenas, put in a word for himself, "Mr Bristles," he said, "this must be a uncomming statty of a she-ass.
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I oncet was recommended to drink a she-ass's milk myself, and liked it uncomming.
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"He can never be such a confounded jackass!" said Mr Sidsby, without giving a local habitation or a name to the personal pronoun _he_.
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"It's a pity she's an ass," suggested Mr Pitskiver.
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"That femininity, as Miss Hendy calls it, should be brought so prominently forward in the person of an ass."
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"An ass?--I don't understand!
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"Why, what the mischief is all this?" exclaimed the bewildered Mr Pitskiver; "this isn't the jeanie-ass you promised me a sight of.
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"Your nonsensical praises of each other--your boastings of Sticklebacks, and Snooksbys, and Bankses; a set of mere humbugs and blockheads!