Vulgar words in My Life as an Author (Page 1)
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I've seen enough, to be able to judge _Ã priori_, that father Noah's flood piled the hill with blocks, which have served one Dr. Borlase and others as occasions for earning the character of blockheads.
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It occupied me about eight days, an innocent fact which divers dull Zoili have been much offended withal, seeing that Coleridge had thought proper to bring out his two Parts at a sixteen years' interval; a matter doubtless attributable either to accident or indolence,--for to imagine that he was diligently polishing his verses the whole time (as some blockheads will have it) would indeed be a verification of the _parturiunt montes_ theory.
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Again: "When Rabelais is diffuse, or a buffoon, or worse, it may be to throw disputers off the scent as to his real mark of satire or philosophy.