Vulgar words in The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author (Page 1)
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Shall it be as first we met at the table of Lucullus, whereto he was seduced by the false pretence that he would there meet with one who entertained novel and anarchical opinions regarding the Golden Ass of Apuleius?
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The passage operated upon is the wild soliloquy, where Hamlet resolves to try the test of the play, and says-- "The devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me."
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Even when he condescended to use the spelling common to the rest of the nation, he could pick out little causes of quarrel with the way of putting it in type--as, for instance, in using the word Ass, which came naturally to him, he would not follow the practice of his day in the use of the long and short ([s]s), but inverted the arrangement thus, s[s].
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There is a shallow prejudice very acceptable to all blockheads, that men who are both learned and laborious must necessarily be stupid.