Vulgar words in Familiar Quotations (Page 1)
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O that he were here to write me down--an ass!
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* * * * * _Honest Whore_.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
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_The Bastard_.
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INDEX Abundance, every one that hath Accidents by flood and field Accoutred as I was Aching void Action, suit the, to the word Actions of the just --like almanacs Acts, little nameless Ada, sole daughter of my house Adam, whipped the offending --dolve and Eve span --the son of, and of Eve Adversary, that mine, had written a book Adversity, sweet the uses of Adversity's sweet milk Affection's mild Age, my, is as a lusty winter --, be comfort to my --cannot wither her --, he was not of an --, for talking --, shakes Athena's tower --, mirror to a gaping --, you'd scarce expect one of my Ages, alike all --, three poets in three distant Agree, where they do Air is full of farewells Airy nothing a local habitation --tongues Aisle and fretted vault Alabaster, like his grandsire cut in All things, prove --things to all men --things that are, are chased --that's bright must fade Allegory, headstrong as an Almanacs like actions of the last age Almighty Dollar Alms, when thou doest Alone, not good that man should be --, they are never, when with noble thoughts Alpha and Omega Alps on Alps arise Altars, strike for your Ambition, vaulting --should be made of sterner stuff --, to reign is worth Angel, she drew down an --, a guardian, she Angel, recording Angels unawares --, make the, weep --trumpet-tongued --and ministers of grace --face shined bright --till our passion dies --are painted fair to look like you --, holy, guard thy bed --wake thee Angels' visits, short and bright --short and far between Angel-visits, few and far between Anger of his lip --more in sorrow than in Angry, be ye, and sin not Anguish, pain is lessened by another's --, hopeless, poured his groan Annals of the poor Anointed, rail on the Lord's Answer, a soft, turneth away wrath Anthem, pealing Antidote, sweet oblivious Anything, for what is worth in Apostles fled, she when Apostolic blows and knocks Apothecary, civet, good Apparel, proclaims the man Apparitions seen and gone Appearance, judge not by Appetite, good digestion wait on Appetite, cloy the hungry ed are of --, to breakfast with what --grown by what it fed on Applaud these to the very echo Apple of his eye Appliances and means to boot Apollo's lute, musical as Apollos watered Apprehension of the good April, June, and November Arch of London bridge Argue, though vanquished, he could Argues yourselves unknown Argument, staple of his Armor, his honest thought Arms, take your last embrace Arrows, Cupid kills with Art, adorning thee with so much --grace beyond the reach of --, ease in writing comes from --, than all the gloss of --is long Artaxerxes' throne Arts and eloquence, mother of Asbourne, down thy hill, romantic Ashes to ashes --, e'en in our Askelon, publish it not in the streets of Ask, and it shall be given you Asleep, the houses seem Ass, write me down an Assurance double sure Athens, the eye of Greece Atlantean shoulders Attempt, and not the deed, confounds Audience, and attention drew Audience fit, though few Auld acquaintance Authority, a little brief Awake, arise, for ever fallen Awe, in, of such a thing as I Ax, laid to the root Babe, bent o'er her Babel, stir of the great Bachelor, when I said I should die a Backing, a plague upon such Bacon shined, think haw Badge of our tribe Balances, thou art weighed in the Ballad to his mistress' eyebrow Ballad-mongers, one of these same meter Ballads sung from a cart --of a people, write the Balloon, huge Bank, I know a Banner, star-spangled Banners, hang out our Banquet's o'er when the Barren, 't is all Battalions, not single, but in Battle, mighty fallen in --not to the strong --and the breeze --, perilous edge of --, freedom's, once began Battles, fought his, o'er again Battle's magnificently stern array Battlements, bore stars Be-all, this blow might to the Bear, like the Turk Bears and lions grow!
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I am weary of Conquer love, they, that run away Conquerors, a lean fellow beats all Conscience with injustice is corrupted --makes cowards of us all --of her worth Consideration, like an angel Constable, outrun the Consummation devoutly to be wished Contemplation he, and valor, formed Content, humble livers in --, farewell Contentment, the noblest mind, has Contradiction, woman's a Cord be loosed Corn, reap an acre of Corporations, no souls Corsair's name, he left a Cottage, the soul's dark Cottage, stood beside a Counsels, perplex and dash maturest Counselors, safety in the multitude of Country, undiscovered --, God made the Courage, screw your, to the sticking place --mounteth with occasion Course, I have finished my --of true love never did run smooth Course of empire Courtesy, I am the very pink of Counterfeit presentment Coward, thou slave --upon instinct Cowards die many times --, what can ennoble Crabtree, and old iron rang Creator, remember thy Creature not too bright Credulity, ye who listen with Crime, within thee, undivulged --, it was worse than a Critics, not trust in Critical, nothing if not Criticising elves Cross, sparkling, she wore --, last at his Crotchets in thy head now Crown of glory Crown, uneasy lies the head that wears a Cruel as death Crumbs, dogs eat of the Crutch, shouldered his Cry is still they come --and no wool Cunning, let my right hand forget her Cupid kills with arrows --is painted blind Cups, freshly remembered in their flowing --that cheer but not inebriate Current of a woman's will Curses, rigged with, dark --, not loud, but deep Custom stale her infinite variety Cut, the most unkindest Cycle and epicycle Cynosure of neighboring eyes Cypress and myrtle Cytherea's breath Daffodils that come before the swallow Dagger I see before me Daggers-drawing Dale, haunts in Dame, our sulky sullen Dames, of ancient days Damn with faint praise Damnation, the deep, of his taking off Damned to everlasting fame Dan to Beersheba Dance, when you do --attendance Daniel come to judgment Dare, what man dare, I Dark, illumine what is Darkly, through a glass Darkness visible Dart, like the poisoning of a Daughter, still harping on my David, Nathan said to Dawn, exhalations of the Day, what a, may bring forth --, sufficient unto the --, jocund, stands tiptoe --, as it tell upon a --, brought back my night --.
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in the calm light of mild --, teaching by examples Physic to the dogs --, take Physician, is there no --, heal thyself Picture, look here upon this Pierian spring Pigmies are pigmies still Pigmy body, fretted the, to decay Pigs squeak, as naturally as Pilgrim shrines, such graves are Pilot of the Galilean lake Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain Pink of courtesy Pines, silent sea of Pin's fee, set my life at a Pitch, he that toucheth Pitcher be broken Pitiful, 't was wondrous Pity, he hath a tear for --'t is, 't is true --, challenge double --melts the mind to love --'s akin to love --gave ere charity began --the sorrows of a poor old man Place, jolly, in times of old Places, lines in pleasant Plan, not without a --, the simple Plato, thou reasonest well Play's the thing --, as good as a Playmates I have had Pleasantness, her ways are ways of Pleased, I would do what I Pleasure of being cheated Pleasure, sweet is after pain --in being mad --at the helm --with reason mixed --in poetic pains Pleasures, dance attendance on Plowshares, swords into Poet's eye in a fine frenzy --'s pen turns them to shape --soaring in the high reason of his fancy Poetic pains, there is a pleasure in Poetical, I would the gods had made thee Poets in three distant ages --intellible forms of Pole, true as the needle to the Pomp, take physic --, lick absurd Poor always ye have --, simple annals of the --, laws grind the Pope of Rome, more than the Poppies, pleasures are like Poppy nor mandragora Porcelain clay of humankind Porcupine, like quills upon the fretful Pot, death in the Poverty, not my will, consents --, steep me in --, depressed, slow rises worth by Power, take, who have the Powers that be, ordained of God Prague's proud arch Praise, the garments of --, damn with faint --, solid pudding against empty --all his pleasure --, blame, love --, none named thee but to --undeserved Praising what is lost Pray, remained to Prayer, whenever God erects a house of --all his, business --, the imperfect offices of Preached as never to preach again Precept upon precept Preparation, dreadful note of Prevaricate, Ralpho, thou dost Priam's curtains Pricks, hard to kick against the Pride goeth before destruction --fell with my fortunes --and haughtiness of soul --in their port --that licks the dust --, soul that perished in his --, blend our pleasure or --that apes humility Primrose, sweet as the Primrose, was to him a yellow Princedoms, virtue's powers Princes, sweet aspect of Print, pleasant to see one's name in Prior, what once was Matthew Prison make, stone walls do not a Procrastination is the thief of time Prologues, happy, to the swelling act Promise, keep the word of Proof, give me ocular Proofs of holy writ Prophet not without honor Prophets, pervert the Propriety, frights the isle from her Prove all things Proverb and a by-word Providence their guide Prow, youth at the Prunella, leather or Psalms, purloin the Punishment greater than I can bear Pure, all things pure to the Purpose, infirm of --, nighty, never is o'ertook Purse, who steals my, steals trash Pyramids in vales Quality, a taste of your Quarrel, sudden and quick, in Quarrel, that hath his, just Question, that is the Quickly, well it were done Quiet, rural Quips and cranks Quivers, the Devil hath not in his Race, not to the swift --, boast a generous --is rim, I bow to that whose --, forget the human --, rear my dusky --of other days Rachel weeping for her children Rack, leave not a, behind Rage, could swell the soul to Raggedness, looped and windowed Rags, the man forget not in Rain from heaven droppeth Rainbow, add another hue unto the Rake, woman is at heart a Ralph to Cynthia howls Rank is but the guinea's stamp Rat, I smell a Rattle, pleased with a Ravens, He that feedeth the Ravishment, divine, enchanting Ray, tints to-morrow with prophetic Read, mark, learn Reap, as you sow, y' are like to Reason, no other but a woman's --upon compulsion --noble and most sovereign --for my rhyme --, make the worse appear the better --, the feast of --with pleasure mixed Reasons are as two grains of wheat Reckoning, so comes a Red spirits and pay Redeemer liveth, my Religion, humanities of Remember such things were Remorse, farewell Remote from men --, unfriended Reputation, seeking the bubble --dies at every word Resignation slopes the way Resolution, native hue of Retirement urges sweet return Retreat, loopholes of Reveals while she hides Revelry, there was a sound of Revels now are ended Rhetoric, ope his mouth for Rhine, wash the river Rhyme nor reason --, and build the lofty --the rudder is --, one for sense and one for Rhyme, dock the tail of Rialto, on the Ribbon, give me what this, bound Rich man and the camel --, not gaudy --with forty pounds a year Richard is himself again Riches, make themselves wings Ridiculous and the sublime Right, whatever is, is Righteous forsaken --overmuch Righteousness and peace --exalteth a nation Ripe and ripe Road, a rough, a weary Roam, where'er I Robbed, lie that is Robbing Peter he paid Paul Hobes and furred gowns hide all Rocket, rose like a Rod, and thy staff --, a chief's a --of empire --, spare the Roderick, art them a friend to Rogue, every inch not fool is Roman, than such a --senate long debate Romans, countrymen, and lovers Rome, palmy state of --, more than the Pope of Romeo, wherefore art thou Ronne, to waite, to ride, to Room, ample, and verge enough --, who sweeps a Root, the axe is laid to the Rose, happier is the, distilled --by any other name --in aromatic pain --fairest when budding Rosebuds, gather ye Roses, the scent of the Ross, the man of Rot and rot Rowland for an Oliver Rub, ay, there's the Rubies, wisdom priced above --, where grew the Ruin or to rule the state --upon ruin --, beauteous, lovely in death Rule thee with a rod of iron --, eye sublime declared absolute --, the good old Run, that he may, that readeth Runs, who, may read Rural quiet Rustic moralist Sadder and a wiser man Sage, lie thought as a Sail, set every threadbare Saint, 't would provoke a St. John mingles with my bowl Saints in crape and lawn --, his soul is with the Salt of the earth Samson, the Philistines be upon thee Satan, get thee behind me Satire's my weapon --in disguise Saul and Jonathan, undivided in death Savage, wild in woods, the noble Saviour's, the, birth is celebrated Scars, he jests at Sceptre, a barren, in my gripe Schemes, best laid School, the village master taught his little Science, O star-eyed Scoff, came to Scorn, he will laugh thee to --, what a deal of, looks beautiful --, fixed figure, for the time of --, laughed his word to Scraps of learning dote, on Screw your courage Scripture, the Devil can cite Scylla, your father Sea, light that never was on --, mysterious union with the --, first that burst into that Sea, alone, alone, on a wide --, like ships that have gone down at --, glad waters of the dark blue --, the open Seals of love Second childishness Sect, slave to no See oursel's as others see us Seek and ye shall find Seems, madam, I know not Self-slaughter, canon 'gainst Sensations sweet Sense, one for --, want of decency is want of Sentiment, pluck the eye of Sepulchres, whited Sermons in stones Serpent sting thee twice Serpents, be ye wise as Servant can make drudgery divine Service, I have done the state some Servitude, base laws of Shade, sitting in a pleasant --, a more welcome --, ah, pleasing --, softening into shade --, boundless contiguity of --of that which once was great Shadow, life is but a walking Shadow, float double, swan and Shadows come like --, coming events cast their, before Shaft that made him die --at random sent Shakespeare, sweetest, Fancy's child Shall I, wasting in despair Shame, an erring sister's --, blush of maiden Shape, take any, but that --, thou com'st in such a questionable --, execrable --, if shape it might be called Shapes and beckoning shadows She walks in beauty Shears, Fury with the abhorred Shell, convolutions of a --, music slumbers in the Shepherd, habt any philosophy in thee Sheridan, broke the die in moulding Ship, idle as a painted Ships that have gone down at sea --that sailed for sunny isles Shocks, the thousand natural Shoe has power to wound Shoot, to teach the young idea how to Shore, rapture on the lonely --, dull, tame Show, that within which passeth --, a driveller and a Shrewsbury clock, fought a long hour by Should auld acquaintance Shrine of the mighty Shut, shut the door Sigh, passing tribute of a --no more, ladies Sighed and looked again --unutterable things Sign, dies and makes no Sight, out of, out of mind --, loved not at first Seigniors, grave and reverend Silence is the perfectest herald of joy --in love bewrays more woe --, ye wolves --, come then, expressive Siloa's brook Simplicity a child Sin, fools make a mock at --of the world --, wages of, is death --, no, for a man to labor in his vocation Single blessedness Sinned against, more Sinning, more sinned against than Sins, charity shall cover the multitude of Sion hill delight thee more Sires, few sons attain the praise of their Sires, green graves of your Sirups, drowsy, of the world Six hundred pounds a year Sixpence, I give thee Skies, looks commencing with the --, raised a mortal to the Skill, is but a barbarous Sky, forehead of the morning --, the storm that howl along the --, souls are ripened in our northern --, star sinning in the --, canopied by the blue Slain, thrice he slew the Slaughter, lamb to the --forbade to wade through Slave, base is the, that pays Slavery or death, which to choose --a bitter draught Slaves, what can ennoble -, Britons never will be Sleep, he giveth his beloved --of a laboring man --, folding the hands to --, our life is rounded with a --knits up the raveled sleave of care --, gentle sleep --, some must watch, while some must --, tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep, undisturbed --, blessings on him who invented --, the mantle that covers all human thought Sleeve, wear my heart upon my Slept, thought her dying when she Sloth finds the down pillow hard Slough of despond Sluggard, 't is the voice of the Slumber, a little Small Latin and less Greek --things compared with great Smell, ancient and fish like Smels, throwe her swete, al around Smile that glowed celestial --, to share the good man's Smiles, seldom he --, kisses, tears, and Snails, her pretty feet, like Snake, we hat'e scotched the --like a wounded Sneer, without sneering --, laughing devil in his Snow whiter than the driven Snug as a bug Society where none intrudes Soldier full of strange oaths Solid men of Boston Solitude is sometimes but society --, how passing sweet is --, where are thy charms --, inward eye of --, makes a, and calls it peace Something too much of this Son of his own works Song of Percy and Douglass Sophonisba, O Sorrow, pluck from the memory a rooted --, wear a golden --, parting is such sweet --, to pine with feare and --, her rent is --, some natural Sorrow returned with the morn Sorrows come not single --, transient Soul, the iron entered into his --, lose his own --.