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 | W. M. Ormrod - 1990 - 156 Seiten
...lme ziH of the Old English poem, which says (hat Beowulfs ship crosses the sea "most like a bird.' Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings. By displaying so forcefully and variously the ways in which the discipline of meter guides and shapes... | |
 | Christopher Fox - 1990 - 472 Seiten
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 | Rowland McMaster - 1991 - 220 Seiten
...crawls, and stings and stinks' (p. 716), echoing Pope's fierce lines from the 'Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot': Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings. Characters frequently speak in unmarked passages of English verse, no doubt reflecting the nineteenth-century... | |
 | Craig M. Carver - 1991 - 296 Seiten
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 | C. J. Purvis - 1991 - 244 Seiten
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 | John Mortimer - 1992 - 492 Seiten
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Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. 
