Vulgar words in Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges (Page 1)
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you d-- little yelling Popish bastard," he said, and stooped to pick up another; the crowd had gathered quite between the horses and in the inn door by this time, and the coach was brought to a dead standstill.
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One of them jeered him for his black eye, which was swelled by the potato, and another called him a bastard, on which he and Harry fell to fisticuffs.
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He asked me much about young H. E., 'that bastard,' as he called him: doubting my lord's intentions respecting him.
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"You little bastard beggar!" he said, "I'll murder you for this!"
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"Bastard or not," said the other, grinding his teeth, "I have a couple of swords, and if you like to meet me, as a man, on the terrace to-night--" And here the doctor coming up, the colloquy of the young champions ended.
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"D-- it!" said he, with one of his usual oaths, "the little slut sees everything.
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What matters whether or no I make my way in life, or whether a poor bastard dies as unknown as he is now?
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So oaths mutually sworn, and invocations of Heaven, and priestly ceremonies, and fond belief, and love, so fond and faithful that it never doubted but that it should live for ever, are all of no avail towards making love eternal: it dies, in spite of the banns and the priest; and I have often thought there should be a visitation of the sick for it, and a funeral service, and an extreme unction, and an _abi in pace_.
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The widow Francis (she was but Mrs. Francis Esmond) was a scheming, artful, heartless hussy.
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"What, do you suppose that a sentimental widow, who will live down in that dingy dungeon of a Castlewood, where she spoils her boy, kills the poor with her drugs, has prayers twice a day and sees nobody but the chaplain-what do you suppose she can do, _mon cousin_, but let the horrid parson, with his great square toes, and hideous little green eyes, make love to her?
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Damn it, sir, what are they, to turn up their noses at us?
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She must be my lady marchioness, and I remain a nameless bastard.
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The duchess, in reply to my aunt's eager clamour, said haughtily, that she had done her best for the legitimate branch of the Esmonds, and could not be expected to provide for the bastard brats of the family.
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"Bastards," says the viscountess, in a fury, "there are bastards amongst the Churchills, as your grace knows, and the Duke of Berwick is provided for well enough."
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I like to think that Jack Haythorn, who sneered at me for being a bastard and a parasite of Webb's, as he chose to call me, and with whom I had had words, shook hands with me the day before the battle begun.
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Thank you, Mr. Bastard.")
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There was one comrade of Esmond's, an honest little Irish lieutenant of Handyside's, who owed so much money to a camp sutler, that he began to make love to the man's daughter, intending to pay his debt that way; and at the battle of Malplaquet, flying away from the debt and lady too, he rushed so desperately on the French lines, that he got his company; and came a captain out of the action, and had to marry the sutler's daughter after all, who brought him his cancelled debt to her father as poor Rogers's fortune.
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"Damn him, look here!" says Castlewood, holding out a paper.
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The swords were no sooner met, than Castlewood knocked up Esmond's with the blade of his own, which he had broke off short at the shell; and the colonel falling back a step dropped his point with another very low bow, and declared himself perfectly satisfied.
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Swift's lodgings in Bury Street, and who flattered him, and made love to him in such an outrageous manner-Vanessa was thrown over.
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He likes to go and sit in the smoking-room at the Grecian, or the Devil; to pace "Change and the Mall"(92)-to mingle in that great club of the world-sitting alone in it somehow: having goodwill and kindness for every single man and woman in it-having need of some habit and custom binding him to some few; never doing any man a wrong (unless it be a wrong to hint a little doubt about a man's parts, and to damn him with faint praise); and so he looks on the world and plays with the ceaseless humours of all of us-laughs the kindest laugh-points our neighbour's foible or eccentricity out to us with the most good-natured, smiling confidence; and then, turning over his shoulder, whispers _our_ foibles to our neighbour.
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a gentleman is hurt": the chairmen put up their pipes, and help the gentleman over the railings, and carry him, ghastly and bleeding, to the bagnio in Long Acre, where they knock up the surgeon-a pretty tall gentleman-but that wound under the short ribs has done for him.
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He ran on Addison's messages: fagged for him and blacked his shoes: to be in Joe's company was Dick's greatest pleasure; and he took a sermon or a caning from his monitor with the most boundless reverence, acquiescence, and affection.
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He did not damn with faint praise: he was in the world and of it; and his enjoyment of life presents the strangest contrast to Swift's savage indignation and Addison's lonely serenity.
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All readers of our old masters know the terrible lines of Swift, in which he hints at his philosophy and describes the end of mankind:-(106) Amazed, confused, its fate unknown, The world stood trembling at Jove's throne; While each pale sinner hung his head, Jove, nodding, shook the heavens and said: 'Offending race of human kind, By nature, reason, learning, blind; You who through frailty stepped aside, And you who never err'd through pride; You who in different sects were shamm'd, And come to see each other damn'd (So some folk told you, but they knew No more of Jove's designs than you).
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The world's mad business now is o'er, And I resent your freaks no more; _I_ to such blockheads set my wit, I damn such fools-go, go, you're bit!'
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And were there one whose fires True genius kindles and fair fame inspires, Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk no brother near the throne; View him with scornful yet with jealous eyes, And hate, for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame as to commend, A timorous foe and a suspicious friend; Dreading even fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause; While wits and templars every sentence raise, And wonder with a foolish face of praise; Who but must laugh if such a man there be, Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
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That great critic pronounced Mr. Pope was a little ass, a fool, a coward, a Papist, and therefore a hater of Scripture, and so forth.
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It is agreeably and skilfully done-that dead jackass; like M. de Soubise's cook, on the campaign, Sterne dresses it, and serves it up quite tender and with a very piquante sauce.
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315, 316):- "'Twas by a poor ass, with a couple of large panniers at his back, who had just turned in to collect eleemosynary turnip-tops and cabbage-leaves, and stood dubious, with his two forefeet at the inside of the threshold, and with his two hinder feet towards the street, as not knowing very well whether he was to go in or no.
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"Now 'tis an animal (be in what hurry I may) I cannot bear to strike; there is a patient endurance of suffering wrote so unaffectedly in his looks and carriage which pleads so mightily for him, that it always disarms me, and to that degree that I do not like to speak unkindly to him: on the contrary, meet him where I will, whether in town or country, in cart or under panniers, whether in liberty or bondage, I have ever something civil to say to him on my part; and, as one word begets another (if he has as little to do as I), I generally fall into conversation with him; and surely never is my imagination so busy as in framing responses from the etchings of his countenance; and where those carry me not deep enough, in flying from my own heart into his, and seeing what is natural for an ass to think-as well as a man, upon the occasion.
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In truth, it is the only creature of all the classes of beings below me with whom I can do this.... With an ass I can commune for ever."
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In saying this, I pulled out a paper of 'em, which I had just bought, and gave him one;-and, at this moment that I am telling it, my heart smites me that there was more of pleasantry in the conceit of seeing _how_ an ass would eat a macaroon than of benevolence in giving him one, which presided in the act.
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I suppose if people want a buffoon they tolerate him only in so far as he is amusing; it can hardly be expected that they should respect him as an equal.
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French ballet-dancers, French cooks, horse-jockeys, buffoons, procurers, tailors, boxers, fencing-masters, china, jewel, and gimcrack merchants-these were his real companions.
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You may see the place now for sixpence: they have fiddlers there every day; and sometimes buffoons and mountebanks hire the Riding House and do their tricks and tumbling there.
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And our grandmother used to tell us children, that on his first presentation to my lord duke, the duke turned his back upon my grandfather; and said to the duchess, who told my lady dowager at Chelsea, who afterwards told Colonel Esmond-"Tom Esmond's bastard has been to my levee: he has the hang-dog look of his rogue of a father"-an expression which my grandfather never forgave.
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By the same token, I told the gentleman who recommended him to me, that the fellow was a blockhead, and I had done with him.'
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A female who is thus invested in whalebone is sufficiently secured against the approaches of an ill-bred fellow, who might as well think of Sir George Etheridge's way of making love in a tub as in the midst of so many hoops.
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The love of a wife is as much above the idle passion commonly called by that name, as the loud laughter of buffoons is inferior to the elegant mirth of gentlemen.
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"Mr. Lintot began in this manner: 'Now, damn them!
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But not only was he so feeble as is implied in his use of the "buckram", but "it now appears", says Mr. Peter Cunningham, "from his unpublished letters, that, like Lord Hervey, he had recourse to ass's-milk for the preservation of his health."
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What, that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white-curd of ass's-milk?
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He hardly knew an ass from a mule, nor a turkey from a goose, but when he saw it on the table.