Vulgar words in Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) (Page 1)
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Buffoons, dressed in copes and surplices, came dancing the carmagnole even to the bar of the Convention.
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It is as essential to his breeding and to his place in society that he should make love to the wives of his neighbors as that he should know French, or that he should have a sword at his side.
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The Duchess admired him, and proceeded to make love to him, after the fashion of the coarse-minded and shameless circle to which she belonged.
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But none of them, we will answer for it, ever said to a young lady to whom he was making love, "We wits rail and make love often, but to show our parts: as we have no affections, so we have no malice."
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Old gentlemen do not criticise the reigning modes, nor do young gentlemen make love, with the balanced epithets and sonorous cadences which, on occasions of great dignity, a skilful writer may use with happy effect.
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Fabius slays Thuris and Butes and Maris and Arses, and the long-haired Adherbes, and the gigantic Thylis, and Sapharus and Monæsus, and the trumpeter Morinus.
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Voltaire is the prince of buffoons.
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When Bottom makes his appearance with an ass's head instead of his own, Peter Quince exclaims, "Bless thee!
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To this vocation-a vocation compared with which the life of a beggar, of a pickpocket, of a pimp, is honorable-did Barère now descend.
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The young men were all rakes; the young women made love, instead of waiting till it was made to them.