Vulgar words in Studies in Early Victorian Literature (Page 1)
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The caresses of harlots and the jests of buffoons regulated the policy of the State.
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James I. was given to "stammering, slobbering, shedding unmanly tears," alternating between the buffoon and the pedagogue.
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Charlotte Brontë perhaps did not know that an elegant girl of rank does not in a friend's house address her host's footman before his guests in these words--"Cease that chatter, blockhead!