Vulgar words in Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (Page 1)

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Or ravish'd with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damn'd to everlasting fame!

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when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds; First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come.

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1058 LADY NAIRNE: _The Laird o' Cockpen._ =Latin.= That soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.

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=Observation.= For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation.

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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.

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1424 RICHARD SAVAGE: _The Bastard,_ Line 7.

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--He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it; And at the best shows but a bastard valor.

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=Wealth.= If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.

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2056 GRAY: _A Long Story._ =Wine.= Wine makes Love forget its care, And mirth exalts a feast.

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Damn with faint praise, 1369.

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Latin, that soft bastard, 1059.

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Valor, fear to do base things is, 1986. shows but a bastard, 1817.

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Wine can make the sage frolic, 2058. makes love forget, 2057.

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