Vulgar words in The Crown of Wild Olive - also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing (Page 1)
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their governors had fallen out; and instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.'
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[179] There is no Resurrection, neither angel nor spirit; but have we not paper and pens, and cannot every blockhead print his opinions, and the Day of Judgment become Republican, with everybody for a judge, and the flat of the universe for the throne?
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[184] 'It must be put by the original, stanza for stanza, and verse for verse; and you will see what was permitted in a Catholic country and a bigoted age to Churchmen, on the score of Religion--and so tell those buffoons who accuse me of attacking the Liturgy.
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'I write in the greatest haste, it being the hour of the Corso, and I must go and buffoon with the rest.