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. The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield - Seite 50herausgegeben von - 1837Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 Seiten
...wit ne'er tu?les, and beauty ue'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of ihe no cure, But to be cast/into a' calenture ? Can knowledge have no bound .-ireams run dimpling all the way. . Whether in ilorid impotence he speaks, A nd,asthrprouiptcrb realties,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 Seiten
...This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, 31 1 Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So...prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Km, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, 320 In puns, or politics, or tales,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 Seiten
...stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, 31 1 Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoyi : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling...ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spit* himself abroad, 320 In pnns, or polit'us, or tales, or lies. Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 Seiten
...Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; 310 Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
| 1816 - 774 Seiten
...miltrefs. Shak. K. Lear. He with mumbled prayers atones the deity. Drjden's juv. i. To mouth gently. — Spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Pope. 3. To flubberover; tofupprefs; to utter imperfectly. — The raifing of my rabble is an exploit... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 Seiten
...with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and tlie rst, Rees, Orme & Brown i Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, { As sliallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 Seiten
...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,...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 Seiten
...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,...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
| William Frederick Deacon - 1823 - 494 Seiten
...sulphureous waves of Tartarus, will be in no hurry for a second warm-bath. CHARACTER »Tommcm-plarr " Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way."—POPE. THERE is a class of persons, indigenous to England, which appears to have escaped the... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 Seiten
...P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit...prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks : Or at the car of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales,... | |
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