His coarseness was of a more sensual, but less imperious kind.

Literary history is an important step in that of man himself; and the unseductive coarseness of Dryden is rather a beacon than a temptation.

It is certain that the French have taken it into their heads, that coarseness of manners is a necessary consequence of liberty, and that there is a kind of leze nation in being too civil; so that, in general, I think I can discover the principles of shopkeepers, even without the indications of a melancholy mien at the assignats, or lamentations on the times.

COARSENESS AND OBSCENITY Kissing and other caresses are, as we have seen, practices unknown to savages.

Coarseness, dullness, pudginess are its keynotes.

But the other coarseness is only the overgrowth of excellence,the rankness of lusty life.

His coarseness is very often as great a blot on his art as on his moralitya thing which can very rarely be said of either Swift or Rabelais; and it is sometimes so distinctly fatal a blemish from the purely literary point of view, that one is amazed at the critical faculty which could have tolerated its presence.

His squalid daily life, the brutal coarseness eating into his brain, as the ashes into his skin: before, these things had been a dull aching into his consciousness; to-night, they were reality.

The coarsenesses and obscenities, which Menander indeed in some measure avoided, but of which there is no lack in the other poets, are the least part of the evil.

Even the Newbury mob could now see the difference between wit and vulgarity, and were made to understand that coarseness and abuse were not strength.