 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 Seiten
...Spurns, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks i butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug...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... | |
 | 1822 - 284 Seiten
...Sporus tremble—A. W hat ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of asses' milk ? Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 Seiten
...correcting it; and brightening it, as he expresses it, by the strokes of his pencil ? The man that had P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 310 Whose buz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 Seiten
...she gave an account in a series of elegant and entertaining letters, very characteristical of NOTES. Satire or Sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? the manners of the Turks, and of which many are addressed to Pope ; are well known, and justly celebrated.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 Seiten
...which she gave an account in a series of elegant and entertaining letters, very characteristical of Satire or Sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? NOTES. the manners of the Turks, and of which many are addressed to Pope ; are well known, and justly... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 Seiten
...Let Sporus tremble — A . What ? that thing of silk , Sporus, that mere white curd of asses' 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...stead. Let Sporns tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? r Tellu» Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 Seiten
...Sporus tremble — A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel, Who breaks a butterfly...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 Seiten
...did not find him a philosopher, you will make him one; for he will be wise enough to take the benefit P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 Seiten
...Walpole ; ind this was sufficiently offensive to Pope. The fact that paricularly excited his indignation Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? NOTES. tion, was Lord H.'s Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity (Dr. Sherwin) from a Nobleman at Hampton... | |
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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. 
