Vulgar words in The Prose Works of William Wordsworth - For the First Time Collected, With Additions from - Unpublished Manuscripts. In Three Volumes. (Page 1)
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If there have been since individual fallings-off; those have been caused by that kind of after-thoughts which are the bastard offspring of selfishness.
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If there had been any such word in our language, _to which we had attached passion_, as lack-wit, half-wit, witless, &c., I should have certainly employed it in preference; but there is no such word.
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I remember a blockhead of a critic in some Review or other crying out against this piece.
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Founded upon an anecdote which I read in a newspaper, of an ass being found hanging his head over a canal in a wretched posture.