Vulgar words in Varied Types (Page 1)
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If we take, for the sake of example, such a line as Pope's: "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer," the test is comparatively simple.
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Life in the eyes of these mournful buffoons is itself an utterly tragic thing; comedy must be as hollow as a grinning mask.
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Great poets like Burns were far more undignified when they clothed their thoughts in what Mr. Morton Luce calls "the seemly raiment of cultured speech" than when they clothed them in the headlong and flexible patois in which they thought and prayed and quarrelled and made love.