They neither comb their Head, nor wash their Face, / But think their virtuous Nastiness a grace.
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They neither comb their Head, nor wash their Face, / But think their virtuous Nastiness a grace.
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Erasmus ascribes the frequent plagues in England to the nastiness and dirt and slovenly habits among the people. “The floors,” says he, “are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which lies unmolested an ancient collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and every thing that is nasty.”
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[T]he helliſh Noiſe, the Roaring, Svvearing, and Clamour, the Stench and Naſtineſs, and all the dreadful croud of Afflicting things that I ſavv there; joyn'd together to make the Place ſeem an Emblem of Hell itſelf, and a kind of an Entrance into it.
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Among current novelists, Martin Amis lacks intellectual force but is well supplied with nastiness, which occasionally resembles humor.
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