Vulgar words in The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford (Page 1)
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Sir Joshua, or some other great painter, was looking at a picture on which much pains had been bestowed-"Why, yes," he said, in a hesitating manner, "it is very clever-very well done-can't find fault; but it wants something; it wants-it wants, damn me-it wants THAT"-throwing his hand over his head and snapping his fingers.
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I think the pretension can only be treated as Phaeton's was, according to Fielding's farce- "Besides, by all the village boys I'm shamed, You, the sun's son, you rascal?-you be damn'd."
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But I must say to my Gurnal as poor Byron did to Moore, "Damn it, Tom, don't be poetical."
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But he lies, and is an ass, and not worth a man's thinking about.
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[262] J.B. corroborated my doubts by his raven-like croaking and criticising; but the good fellow writes me this morning that he is written down an ass, and that the approbation is unanimous.
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After all, I have fagged through six pages; and made poor Wurmser lay down his sword on the glacis of Mantua-and my head aches-my eyes ache-my back aches-so does my breast-and I am sure my heart aches, and what can Duty ask more?
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The blockheads talk of my being like Shakespeare-not fit to tie his brogues.
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I feel sorely fagged.
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I am sadly fagged.
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Sir John Jackass seconded the Whig's nominee.
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no time for work, so hard am I fagged by the Court and the good company of Edinburgh.
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She is clearly guilty, but as one or two witnesses said the poor wench hinted an intention to poison herself, the jury gave that bastard verdict, Not proven .
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If a drunkard or an ass breaks in with anything out of joint, if you can parry it with a jest, good and well-if not, do not exert your serious authority, unless it is something very bad.
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There is a clergyman's letter about the Scottish pronunciation, to which I had written an answer some weeks since (the person is an ass, by the by).
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"Frenchman, Devil, or Don, Damn him, let him come on, He shan't scare a son of the Island."
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A tinker (drunk I suppose) entered the stream opposite to Faldonside with an ass bearing his children.
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Came home too fagged to do anything to purpose.
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I suppose I was too much fagged with sitting in the Court to-day to write hard after dinner, but I did work, however.
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I was fagged at Court till near two.
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Well, having written myself down an ass, I will daub it no farther, but e'en trifle till the humour of work comes.
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[190] I should have gone to the Duchess of Northumberland's to hear music to-night, but I felt completely fagged, and betook myself home to bed.
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It is not that Holland House is fine as a building; on the contrary, it has a tumble-down look; and, although decorated with the bastard Gothic of James I.
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[235] January 16.-Nothing on the roll to-day, so I did not go to the Parliament House, but fagged at my desk till two.
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I am in the sentiments towards the public that the buffoon player expresses towards his patron- "Go tell my young lord, said this modest young man, If he will but invite me to dinner, I'll be as diverting as ever I can- I will, on the faith of a sinner."
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[274] March 14.-Up at eight, rather of the latest-then fagged at my review, both before and after breakfast.
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I fagged at writing letters to Lockhart, to Charles, and to John Gibson, to Mr. Cadell, Croker, Lord Haddington, and others.
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Treated myself, being considerably fagged, with a glass of poor Glengarry's super-excellent whisky and a cigar, made up my Journal, wrote to the girls, and so to roost upon a crust of bread and a glass of small beer, my usual supper.
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This sounds sadly like idleness, except what may be done either in the morning before breakfast, or in the broken portion of the day between attendance on the Court and my dinner meal,-a vile, drowsy, yawning, fagged portion of existence, which resembles one's day, as a portion of the shirt, escaping betwixt one's waistcoat and breeches, indicates his linen.
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Anne wants me to go to hear the Tyrolese Minstrels, but though no one more esteems that bold and high-spirited people, I cannot but think their yodelling, if this be the word, is a variation, or set of variations, upon the tones of a jackass, so I remain to dribble and scribble at home.
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I was a good deal fagged, and must have tired my companion by walking slow.
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I should be a bastard to the time [385] did I not tell our fare.
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As I had risen early I was sadly drowsy; however, I fought and fagged away the day.
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's reign, a kind of bastard Grecian [391] -very fanciful and pretty though.
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I came home much fagged, slept for half-an-hour (I don't like this lethargy), read I Promessi Sposi , and was idle.
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July 13.-Now "what a thing it is to be an ass!"
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January 27.-So fagged with my frozen vigils that I slept till after ten.
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March 1, 2, 3.-All these three days I wrote forenoon and fagged afternoon.
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James, the blockhead, lost my poor Spice, a favourite terrier.