Vulgar words in The Tragic Muse (Page 1)
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Nothing can well figure as less "big," in an honest thesis, than a marked instance of somebody's willingness to pass mainly for an ass.
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Mayn't it be simply that he's too great an ass?"
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Do you think him an ass for what he said about the theatre--his pronouncing it a coarse art?"
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However, she could pray God if, she couldn't make love to the cheesemonger, and Nick felt she had stayed at home to pray for him.
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She hoped Nick was not dreadfully fagged--she feared Julia was completely done up.
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He was on his guard, however, against making an ass of himself, that is against not thinking out his experiments before trying them in public.
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"So far from 'minding' it I'm eager to see him," Sherringham declared; "and I can imagine nothing better than what you describe--if he isn't an awful ass."
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"And suppose one's a brute or an ass, where's the efficacy?"
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He really knew little about Nick's talent--so little as to feel no right to exclaim "What an ass!" when Biddy mentioned the fact which the existence of real talent alone could redeem from absurdity.
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Then he added: "I fatigue you, I knock you up, with telling you these troubles.
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That sounds fatuous, but to you I don't mind appearing an ass."
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He's not an ass either.
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He looked into the gross darkness that may result from excess of light; that is, he understood how knocked up, on the eve of production, every one concerned in the preparation of a piece might be, with nerves overstretched and glasses blurred, awaiting the test and the response, the echo to be given back by the big, receptive, artless, stupid, delightful public.
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That was conspicuous while the play went on and she guarded the whole march with fagged piety and passion.
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"They throbbed in me even more than now, and I was trying, like an ass, not to feel them.
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It was in the name of the theatre you first made love to me; it's to the theatre you owe every advantage that, so far as I'm concerned, you possess."
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I'm not a little presumptuous ass; I'm a man accomplished and determined, and the omens are on my side."
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"Why you heard: she says I'm an ass."