Vulgar words in Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 - With His Letters and Journals (Page 1)

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bastard x 1
buffoon x 1
damn x 4
knocked up x 1
make love x 1
            

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I don't want to be impertinent, or buffoon on a serious subject, and am therefore at a loss what to say.

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But let me not, as Roderick Random says, 'profane the chaste mysteries of Hymen'[65]--damn the word, I had nearly spelt it with a small _h_.

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"I must go to tea--damn tea.

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"And now to the last--my own, which I feel ashamed of after the others:--publish or not as you like, I don't care _one damn_.

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Far from that Heav'n, denied, if never sought, Thy light a beacon--a reproach thy name-- Thy memory "damn'd to everlasting fame," Shunn'd by the wise, admired by fools alone-- The good shall mourn thee--and the Muse disown."

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Our carriage not come; our horses, mules, &c. knocked up; ourselves fatigued; but so much the better--I shall sleep.

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I heard the other day of a pretty trick of a bookseller, who has published some d----d nonsense, swearing the bastards to me, and saying he gave me five hundred guineas for them.

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But, for all this, it was an awkward affair; and though he must have known that I made love to Marianna, yet I believe he was not, till that evening, aware of the extent to which it had gone.

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