Vulgar words in Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 (Page 1)
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Having mistaken Hardcastle's house for an inn, and Miss Hardcastle for the barmaid, he is quite at his ease, and makes love freely.
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She makes love to Mephistophelês, with great worldly shrewdness.--Goethe, _Faust_ (1798).
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He decides in favor of Pan, whereupon Pol throws off his disguise, appears as the god Apollo, and, being indignant at the decision, gives Midas "the ears of an ass."
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_Midas's Ears._ The servant who used to cut the king's hair, discovering the deformity, was afraid to whisper the secret to any one, but, being unable to contain himself, he dug a hole in the earth, and, putting his mouth into it, cried out, "King Midas has ass's ears!"
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Sir Wilful Witwould makes love to her, but she detests "the superannuated lubber."--W.
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When, therefore, Miranda asked his consent to marry, he readily gave it, thinking himself to be the man of her choice; but the sly little hussy laughed at her old guardian, and plighted her troth to Sir George Airy, a man of 24.--Mrs. Centlivre, _The Busy Body_ (1709).
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In order to sound her, the count disguised himself as a father confessor; but Volantê detected the trick instantly, and said to him, "Come, come, count, pull off your lion's hide, and confess yourself an ass."
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Suddenly he would stop, stamp with one foot, knock up the hinder brim of his hat, begin to scratch the nape of his neck, wait a moment, then wheel round, look at the first-floor window, and roar out, "Matilda!"
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A nincompoop, fond of drinking, but with just a shade more brains than Abel Day, who is "a thorough ass" (act i.
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Titania happened to see a country bumpkin, whom Puck had dressed up with an ass's head.
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Ocnus is represented as twisting with unwearied diligence a rope, which an ass eats as fast as it is made.
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While still a lad, Orson made love to Ellen, a rustic maiden; but, in the fickleness of youth, forsook her for a richer lass, and Ellen left the village, wandered far away, and became waiting maid to old Boniface, the innkeeper.
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One day, riding on an ass by the ruins of Jerusalem, after its destruction by the Chaldeans, he doubted in his mind whether God could raise the city up again.
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While he still looked, the dry bones came together, received life, and the resuscitated ass began to bray.
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When Sir John Falstaff made love to Mrs. Page, Page himself assumed the name of Brooke, to outwit the knight.
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When Sir John Falstaff made love to her, she joined with Mrs. Ford to dupe him and punish him.
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He is drawn under two widely different characters: In classic story he is depicted as an admirable archer, slain by Diomed, and honored as a hero-god in his own country; but in mediæval romance he is represented as a despicable pimp, insomuch that the word _pander_ is derived from his name.
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He rides an ass called Dapple.
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He returned the favor by stealing Sancho's wallet and ass.
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=Pattypan= (_Mrs._), a widow who keeps lodgings, and makes love to Tim Tartlet, to whom she is ultimately engaged.
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=Peach´um=, a pimp, patron of a gang of thieves, and receiver of their stolen goods.
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The hero becomes possessed of a magical wild ass's skin, which yields him the means of gratifying every wish; but for every wish thus gratified, the skin shrank somewhat, and at last vanished, having been wished entirely away.
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When grown to manhood, a "sea-captain" named Norman, made love to Violet, Lord Ashdale's cousin.
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=Pickel-Herringe= (5 _syl._), a popular name among the Dutch for a buffoon; a corruption of _pickle-härin_ ("a hairy sprite"), answering to Ben Jonson's _Puck-hairy_.
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When Norman, "the sea-captain," made love to Violet, Mistress Prudence remonstrated, "What will the countess say if I allow myself to see a stranger speaking to her ward?"
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This exquisite allegory is from the _Golden Ass_ of Apulēios.
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Jonson, _The Devil is an Ass_ (1616).
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He entertains Captain Charles Stanley, and Captain Harry Stukely at Strawberry Hall, when the former, under cover of acting, makes love to Kitty (an heiress), elopes with her, and marries her.
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_Pantalone_ was a Venetian merchant; _Dottore_ a Bolognese physician; _Spaviento_ a Neapolitan braggadocio; _Pullicinella_ a wag of Apulia; _Giangurgolo_ and _Coviello_ two clowns of Calabria; _Gelsomino_ a Roman beau; _Beltrame_ a Milanese simpleton; _Brighella_ a Ferrarese pimp; and _Arlecchino_ a blundering servant of Bergamo.
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=Querno= (_Camillo_), of Apulia, was introduced to Pope Leo X., as a buffoon, but was promoted to the laurel.
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=Rakeland= (_Lord_), a libertine, who makes love to married women, but takes care to keep himself free from the bonds of matrimony.--Mrs. Inchbald, _The Wedding Day_ (1790).
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Una comes on a white ass to the court of Gloriana, and craves that one of the knights would undertake to slay the dragon which kept her father and mother prisoners.
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A country bumpkin, wholly ignorant of the world and of literature.--Vanbrugh and Cibber, _The Provoked Husband_ (1727).
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Ocnus was always twisting a rope with unwearied diligence, but an ass ate it as fast as it was twisted.
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⁂ The allusion is to Sancho Panza's ass, which was stolen from under him by the galley-slave, Gines de Passamonte.
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He rode upon an ass which he dearly loved, and was noted for his proverbs.
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_Sancho Panza's Ass_, Dapple.
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_Scogan_ (_John_), the favorite jester and buffoon of Edward IV.
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Hence Pope says: Benlowes, propitious still to blockheads, bows; And Shadwell nods the poppy on his brows.