Vulgar words in Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English (Page 1)
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"_Clinker._--'Damn your Timothy!
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A month later he added:-- "I have got the sketch and extracts from 'Lalla Rookh'--which I humbly suspect will knock up ..." (he intended himself), "and show young gentlemen that something more than having been across a camel's hump is necessary to write a good Oriental tale.
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"They were alone once more; for them to be Thus was another Eden; they were never Weary, unless when separate: the tree Cut from its forest root of years--the river Damn'd from its fountain--the child from the knee And breast maternal wean'd at once forever,-- Would wither less than these two torn apart; Alas!
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This unfortunate mistress of Herbert was magnified into a _seraglio_; extraordinary tales of the voluptuous life of one who generally _at his studies outwatched the stars_, were rife in English society; and 'Hoary marquises and stripling dukes,' who were either _protecting opera-dancers_, or, still worse, _making love to their neighbors' wives_, either looked grave when the name of Herbert (Lord Byron) was mentioned in female society, or affectedly confused, as if they could a tale unfold, if they were not convinced, that the sense of propriety among all present was infinitely superior to their sense of curiosity."
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Then he exclaims:-- "What misery to have nothing else to do but make love and verses, and create enemies for one's self."
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Instead of being gloomy, he was, on the contrary, of a very gay disposition, and was fond of jesting; it even amused him to witness comic scenes, such as quarrels between vulgar buffoons, to make them drink, or lead them on in any other way to show their drolleries.
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Did he not make love of country incarnate in that admirable type (_the young Venetian Foscari_); too fine a type, perhaps, though historical, to be understood by every one.