Vulgar words in The Art of Letters (Page 1)
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No sentence in _The Pilgrim's Progress_ is more suggestive of Bunyan's view of life than that in which the merchandise of Vanity Fair is described as including "delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not."
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He was a damned soul that must occupy itself at all costs and not damn itself still deeper in the process.
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It is because of this hard-won ease of style that readers of English will never grow weary of that epistolary autobiography in which he recounts his maniacal fear that his food has been poisoned; his open-eyed wonder at balloons; the story of his mouse; the cure of the distention of his stomach by Lady Hesketh's gingerbread; the pulling out of a tooth at the dinner-table unperceived by the other guests; his desire to thrash Dr. Johnson till his pension jingled in his pocket; and the mildly fascinated tastes to which he confesses in such a paragraph as: I know no beast in England whose voice I do not account musical save and except always the braying of an ass.
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It is easy enough to attack him or defend him--to damn him as an infidel or to praise him because he made Harriet Westbrook so miserable that she threw herself into the Serpentine.
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One remembers that Carlyle dismissed Herbert Spencer as a "never-ending ass."