 | John Sitter - 2001 - 298 Seiten
...the Horace figure of the opening lines is at odds with the aggressive glee of the attack on Hervey - "Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings" (lines 309-10) - as well as with the lofty tones of the satirist who "stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd... | |
 | William Harmon - 2003 - 538 Seiten
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 | Diane Ackerman - 2003 - 287 Seiten
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 | D. H. Lawrence - 2003 - 632 Seiten
...There may be a memory of the image of the insect in Pope's 'Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot' (1735), 11. 308-9: 'Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings - / This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings.' 49:37 These States. Strongly reminiscent of Whitman (see note on 148:2): cf. the titles 'France, The... | |
 | Kenneth Haynes - 2003 - 224 Seiten
...vulgar terms like pox; Pope uses low Saxon monosyllables like bug, dirt, stink just as effectively: Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded Wings, This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; (Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 11. 310-11; 1734) Rochester and Swift break decorum, or break with decorum,... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 331 Seiten
...attacks elsewhere on fools and charlatans in literature and public life are vigorously handled — "Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt, that stinks and sings" (Lord Hervey, in 'The Dunciad') - but the individual feuds have relatively little interest for... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 2003 - 280 Seiten
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 | Wystan Hugh Auden - 2004 - 553 Seiten
...stead. Let Sporus tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks...stings; 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... | |
 | Edward Leeson - 2004 - 703 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. 
