Vulgar words in Goldsmith - English Men of Letters Series (Page 1)
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He was a dull boy; "a stupid, heavy blockhead," is Dr. Strean's phrase in summing up the estimate formed of young Goldsmith by his contemporaries at school.
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A grain or two of the stolid self-sufficiency of the blockheads who laughed at him would not only have improved his character, but would have considerably added to the happiness of his life.
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'Pshaw, pshaw, Will,' cried the figure, 'no more of that, if you love me: you know I hate flattery,--on my soul I do; and yet, to be sure, an intimacy with the great will improve one's appearance, and a course of venison will fatten; and yet, faith, I despise the great as much as you do; but there are a great many damn'd honest fellows among them, and we must not quarrel with one half, because the other wants weeding.
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There is an occasional "damn," it is true; but then English officers have always been permitted that little playfulness, and these two gentlemen were supposed to "serve in the Fleet;" while if they had been particularly refined in their speech and manner, how could the author have aroused Miss Richland's suspicions?
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Bravo!" cry the jolly companions of Tony Lumpkin, when that promising buckeen has finished his song at the Three Pigeons; then follows criticism:-- "_First Fellow._ The squire has got spunk in him.
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_Third Fel._ O damn anything that's low, I cannot bear it.
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Take your hands from your pockets, Roger; and from your head, you blockhead you.
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_Hard._ Blockhead!