Vulgar words in Views and Reviews - Essays in appreciation (Page 1)
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He is almost prepared to welcome 'free education,' since 'every Englishman who can read, unless he be an Ass, is a reader the more' for Dickens.
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It is argued that this is all deliberate--is an effect of premeditation: that Rabelais had certain home-truths to deliver to his generation, and delivered them in such terms as kept him from the fagot and the rope by bedaubing him with the renown of a common buffoon.
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After all its companion is but a bastard of the loud, malignant, antic muse of Marston; the elegies are cold, elaborate, and very tedious; the _Transformed Metamorphosis_ is better verse but harder reading than _Sordello_ itself.
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_Moi_ is an admirable comedy, and De la Porcheraie is almost hideously egoistic; the _Voyage de M. Perrichon_ is delightful reading, and Perrichon is as pompous an ass as I know; but the _Chapeau de Paille_, the _Cagnotte_, the _Trente Millions_, the _Sensitive_, the _Deux Merles Blancs_, the _Doit-On le Dire_, and their compeers--with them it is other-guess work altogether.
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The Rembrandt of _The Syndics_, the Shakespeare of _The Tempest_ and _Lear_--what are these but pits for the feet of the Young Ass?
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The public preferred him as a buffoon; and not until his last years (and then anonymously) was he able to utter his highest word.
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As, not content with committing himself thus far, he goes on to prove that Boswell was great because he was little, that he wrote a great book because he was an ass, and that if he had not been an ass his book would probably have been at least a small one, incredulity on these points becomes respectable.
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Merry ladies make love to their gallants with flowers, or scorn them with the huckle-bones of shame; the Mother Coles of Araby pursue the unwary stranger for their mistress' pleasure; damsels resembling the full moon carouse with genial merchants or inquiring calenders.
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To him the pretensions to virtue and consideration of the vulgar little hussy whom Richardson selected for his heroine were certainly not less preposterous than the titles to life and actuality of the wooden libertine whom Richardson put forth as his hero.