… unclean … poisonous

—The London Daily Chronicle, reviewing The Picture of Dorian Gray

… nasty … nauseous

—The St. James Gazette, reviewing the same

• Caricatured as a monkey on the cover of Harper’s Weekly
• Referred to as an ‘animal’ by the National Republican

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References:

• “most known and quoted”
• “unclean … nauseous”