Vulgar words in The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings - With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency (Page 1)
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"How exactly," says Mr. Ireland, "does Bramston describe the character in his _Man of Taste_:-- 'Without Italian, and without an ear, To Bononcini's music I adhere.---- To boon companions I my time would give, With players, pimps, and parasites I'd live; I would with jockeys from Newmarket dine, And to rough riders give my choicest wine.
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The name of the performer on his right hand, ----"Whose growling bass Would drown the clarion of the braying ass," I cannot learn, nor do I think that this group were meant for particular portraits, but a general representation of the violent distortions into which these crotchet-mongers draw their features on such solemn occasions.