Vulgar words in The Victorian Age in Literature (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 1
bastard x 1
blockhead x 1
buffoon x 3
damn x 1
            

Page 1

~   ~   ~   Sentence 690   ~   ~   ~

Now any one may be so in practice: but a man who is simply individualistic in theory must merely be an ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 983   ~   ~   ~

Edward Lear, a richer, more romantic and therefore more truly Victorian buffoon, improved the experiment.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 986   ~   ~   ~

It may appear, because I have used from time to time the only possible phrases for the case, that I mean the Victorian Englishman to appear as a blockhead, which means an unconscious buffoon.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 987   ~   ~   ~

To all this there is a final answer: that he was also a conscious buffoon--and a successful one.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,268   ~   ~   ~

But-- "Indeed, indeed, repentance oft before I swore; but was I sober when I swore?" is equally successful in the same sense as-- "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer And without sneering teach the rest to sneer."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,282   ~   ~   ~

Swinburne could write-- "We shall see Buonaparte the bastard Kick heels with his throat in a rope."

Page 1