Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 20, 1890 by Various
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phrases about Sin.
If you aim to be a Shocker, carnal theories to cocker is _the_ best way to begin. And every one will say, As you worm your wicked way, "If that's allowable for _him_ which were criminal in _me_, What a very emancipated kind of youth this kind of youth must be." Human virtues you'll abhor all, and be down upon the Moral in uncompromising style. Your critical analysis will reduce to prompt paralysis every _motor_ that's not vile. You will show there's naught save virtue that can seriously hurt you, or your liberty enmesh; And you'll find excitement, plenty, in Art's _dolce far niente_, with a flavour of the flesh. And every one will say, As you lounge your upward way, "If he's content with a do-nothing life, which would certainly not suit _me_. What a most particularly subtle young man this subtle young man must be!" Then having swamped morality in "intensified personality" (which, of course, must mean your own), And the "rational" abolished and "sincerity" demolished, you will find that you have _grown_ With a "colour-sense" fresh handselled (whilst the moral ditto's cancelled) you'll develop into--well, What Philistia's fools malicious might esteem a _vaurien_ vicious (_alias_ "hedonic swell"). |
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