 | Leonard C. Smithers - 1894 - 450 sivua
...naughty words in his dictionary: — "You must have been looking for them, Madam!" But I repeat (p. xxv.) there is another element in The Nights, and that is...chiefly connected with what our neighbours call Le vice centre nature* Upon this subject I must offer details, as it does not enter into my plan to ignore... | |
 | 1900 - 556 sivua
...words in his dictionary — " You must have been looking for them, Madam ! " But I repeat (p. xvi.) there is another element in The Nights and that is one of absolute obscenity utterly repugnant^to English readers, even the least prudish. It is chiefly connected with what our neighbours... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1906 - 330 sivua
...East is the language of every man, woman and child, from prince to peasant." "But," he continues, " there is another element in the Nights, and that is...repugnant to English readers, even the least prudish." Still, upon this subject he offers details, because it does not enter into his plan ' c to ignore any... | |
 | Mary S. Lovell - 2000 - 948 sivua
...the history from the earliest times of what he called 'the love of boys', rather than the act itself: There is another element in the Nights, and that is...repugnant to English readers, even the least prudish ... le vice contre nature. Upon this subject I must offer details, as it does not enter into my plan... | |
 | Dane Kennedy - 2005 - 384 sivua
...limitations of his use of Orientalism. 86 Burton led his readers on a densely documented, fifty-page tour of "what our neighbours call Le vice contre nature —...be contrary to nature which includes all things." 87 x>ooooooooo<xxxxxxxxxx>ooooooo< Starting with the classical Greeks, he followed the trail of pederastic... | |
 | Regna Darnell, Frederic Wright Gleach - 2007 - 258 sivua
...were perfectly defensible provided their frequency did not diminish the birth rate! But I repeat . . . there is another element in The Nights and that is...connected with what our neighbours call le vice contre nature—as if anything can be contrary to nature which includes all things. And they, methinks, do... | |
 | Joseph A. Massad - 2008 - 470 sivua
...sexual words that might be regarded as offensive, Burton adds, in reference to male homosexuality, that "there is another element in The Nights and that is...least prudish. It is chiefly connected with what our neighbors call Le vice contre nature — as if anything can be contrary to nature which includes all... | |
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You must have been looking for them, Madam!' But I repeat, there is another element in The Nights and that is one of absolute obscenity utterly repugnant to English readers, even the least prudish. It is chiefly connected with what our neighbours call... 