Vulgar words in Adventures in Criticism (Page 1)
This book at a glance
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Swift was a toady at heart, and used Stella vilely for the sake of that hussy Vanessa.
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You "go one better" than Sir Peter Teazle and damn all sentiment, and lo!
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Scott himself, sensible as ever, wrote in his _Journal_, "The blockheads talk of my being like Shakespeare--not fit to tie his brogues."
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The two friends are Philip Christian and Pete Quilliam: Philip talented, accomplished, ambitious, of good family, and eager to win back the social position which his father had lost by an imprudent marriage; Pete a nameless boy--the bastard son of Philip's uncle and a gawky country-girl--ignorant, brave, simple-minded, and incurably generous.
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As far as can be guessed--for I have never come across any British attempt at a serious appreciation of Mr. Stockton--the general disposition is to regard him as an amusing kind of "cuss" with a queer kink in his fancy, who writes puzzling little stories that make you smile.