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... of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. Rochester (1647–1680) was among the worst (best?) of the Restoration rakes, and also one of the period’s best satirists employing a direct language rife with plenty of four-letter words and an obsessive indulgence of the most vulgar vernacular used on behalf of satirical shredding, scatological humor, and sexual candor. Volume 7 in T...

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... Picture The Platonic Lady Song (Phillis, Be Gentler, I Advise...) Epistle To Love The Imperfect Enjoyment A Ramble in St. James's Park On the Women about Town Song (Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland...) Song (Love a Woman? You’re an Ass!...) Upon His Drinking Bowl Grecian Kindness Signior Dildo A Satire on Charles II Tunbridge Wells Upon His Leaving His Mistre...

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... wind barbed on Norwegian peaks by the brewers of cough and catarrh—horrid women of the whistling clouts, in the pay of our doctors. He braved them; h... ...ong those wheels; and his nerves clutched him, like a troop of house- hold women, to keep him from the hazard of an exposure to the horrid crunch, pit... ...hey let slip of their secrets, and the point of it for penetrating yours”:—women. But no; my dear souls didn’t prick and bother. And they dealt with a... ...he weak in streets and by-places—shocking examples of ruffians maltreating women, in view of a crowd.’ ‘One strong man is an overmatch for your mob,’ ... ...reconcilement of op- posing stations, a defeat of Puritanism. Ay, and poor women!—women in the worser plight under the Puritan’s eye. They may be erri... ...is unclean- ness. And when Strength is not exercising, you are sure to see Satirists jump on his back. Dozens, foreign and domes- tic, are on the back... ...tany of sinfulness. He was near a truth; and he had the heat of it on him. Satirists in their fervours might be near it to grasp it, if they could be ...

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...9—did much to unsettle the religious tone of public morals. Historians and satirists ascribe a large effect in this change to the personal influence o... ...romoting the subscriptions; and a demand has been made in consequence—that women shall be allowed to vote in the church courts. Grant this demand—for ... ...m its commodious shape, it is still a favor- ite dishabille of the Arabian women when they are behind the curtains of the tent. From this early rudime... ...iod of Jewish history, it was prob- ably worn as the sole under-garment by women of all ranks, both amongst the Bedouin Hebrews and those who lived in... ...se, did not even require a girdle. The same remark applies to the He- brew women, who, during the nomadic period of their his- tory, had been accustom... ...self the very moment that she rose from bed. Indeed, so long as the Hebrew women were con- 47 Thomas de Quincey tent with a single tunic, it flowed l...

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...ry criminal lengths is not so extremely clear, unless we will suppose that women never grant every favour to a man but one, without granting 398 The H... ...e left some circumstances which might be questionable in a court of law. Women, to their glory be it spoken, are more generally capable of that viol... ...e was capable of affording. Mrs. Waters was not of that delicate race of women who are obliged to the invention of vehicles for the capacity of re ... ...t out of the way; for there are some situations in which nice and delicate women would not be discovered by their husbands. To say the truth, there ... ... purpose he was proceeding to the Bath, to try his luck with cards and the women. This young fellow lay in bed reading one of Mrs. Behn’s novels; fo... ...prevails among the vulgar, who, borrowing their opinion from some ignorant satirists, have affixed the char acter of lewdness to these times. On the ...

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...ere a priori one, viz., that I had always been tied to the apron string of women or girls; which amounted at most to this—that, by training and the na... ...the second stage of the case, I was delivered over to the custody of young women and girls; whereas the ordinary course would have thrown me upon the ... ...ancy,) naturally I had learned to appreci- ate the indulgent tenderness of women; and my heart thrilled with love and gratitude, as often as they took... ...en as every where else; but, unfortunately, my introduction to these young women was in the very worst of characters. I had been taken in arms—in arms... ...but I (seeing no military reason against it) kissed them. Really, if young women will insist on kissing major generals, they must expect that the 64 ... ... something unsexual, man- nish, and (as it was treated by the sycophantish satirists that 301 Autobiographic Sketches for ever humor the prevailing f...

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...solution. Some other points about her were likewise such as pertain to the women of savage life. Lithe though she was, she loved supineness, but upon ... ... a malicious invention. Ere long, at the suggestion of some woman’s-rights women, the in- jured wife began a suit, and, thanks to able counsel and ac-... ...inest of the primitive races, possessed of many heroic virtues. Some noble women, too. When I think of Pocahontas, I am ready to love Indians. Then th... ...to the worthy bridge not to do so. Man is a noble fellow, and in an age of satirists, I am not displeased to find one who has confidence in him, and b... ...er, said: “When mermaid songs move figure-heads, then may glory, gold, and women try their blandishments on me. But a good fellow, singing a good song... ...amiliar lines: 221 Melville “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players, Who have their exits and their entrances, And one man...

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...“the most original of geniuses in French literature, the foremost of prose satirists; inexhaustible in details of manners and customs, a word- painter... ... very good creature, Mademoiselle de Coetlogon, one of the Queen’s waiting-women, fill in love with him, even to madness. She made all the advances; b... ... where Madame Ticquet was con- fined, were filled with spectators, men and women, many of title and distinction. There were even friends of both sexes... ...een kept in during sup- per overflowed. The Queen wept for her Piedmontese women. Like a child, as she was, she thought herself lost in the hands of l... ... spoke less than usual—that is to say, only about as much as three or four women—so that everybody soon saw this great change. It would have been stra... ...est able to Saint Cloud. Whoever was first ready started together. Men and women jostled each other, and then threw themselves into the coaches withou...

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... become gentle and harmless, smitten into shame by he pure presence of our women and the sweet confiding smiles of our children. Among the vet- erans,... ... confiding smiles of our children. Among the vet- erans, the old pictorial satirists, we have mentioned the famous name of one humorous designer who i... ...night in the season to balls and parties, where you see the most beautiful women possible. He is wel- 11 Thackeray comed amongst his new friends the ...

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...ions, of course: my father was not a man to underrate the bearing of Latin satirists or Greek dra- matists on the attainment of an aristocratic positi... ...real inhabitants and owners of this place, while the busy, trivial men and women, hurrying to and fro, were a swarm of ephemeral visitants infesting i... ...ted in them a shrinking, half-contemptuous pity; for this class of men and women are but slightly determined in their estimate of others by general co... ...ent result! Meunier was now a brilliant figure in society, to whom elegant women pretended to listen, and whose acquaintance was boasted of by nobleme... ... want her to know about it. There are always insuperable difficulties with women in these matters, and the effect on the supposed dead body may be sta... ..., and I should be obliged to see what had been breeding about two unloving women’s hearts. I felt that Ber- tha had been watching for the moment of de...