 | Jon Thomas Rowland - 1998 - 254 Seiten
...that bothered the lesser writers— his uncontainable "amphibiousness": Amphibious Thing! that acting either Part, The trifling Head, or the corrupted Heart!...Flatt'rer at the Board, Now Trips a lady, and now struts a Lord. (Epistle toArbuthnot, lines 326-29) What is frightening about this Hervey, and consequently... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 Seiten
...now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have... | |
 | J. McLaverty - 2001 - 286 Seiten
...now low, now Master up, now Miss, And he himself one vile Antithesis: Amphibious Thing! that acting either part. The trifling head, or the corrupted heart,...Flatt'rer at the Board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord. (Works, 3i5-2i, lineation confusedl But of all this passage, only one modified couplet... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 Seiten
...now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart,...flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have expressed, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest;... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 Seiten
...lyes, Or fpite, or fmut, or rhymes, or blafphemies.— Amphibious thing ! that acling either parr, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart, Fop at...flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now firms a lord. Eve's tempter thus, the rabbins have expreft, A cherub's face, a reptile all the reft,... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2006 - 942 Seiten
...now low, now Master up, now Miss, And he himself one vile Antithesis. Amphibious Thing! that acting either Part, The trifling Head, or the corrupted Heart!...Flatt'rer at the Board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord. Eves Tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest, A Cherubs face, a Reptile all the rest;... | |
 | Kirk Freudenburg - 2005 - 380 Seiten
...now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 2007
...Hervey (Sporus) is treated with more loathing as an effete, epicene thing. Amphibious Thing! that acting either Part, The trifling Head, or the corrupted Heart!...Flatt'rer at the Board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord. (TE, iv, p. 119) In this case, however, Lady Mary had the last laugh. Showing a friend... | |
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A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. 
