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 ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Seite 274von Alexander Pope - 1873 - 600 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 Seiten
...curd of asses milk ! Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? 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 ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred... | |
| John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 440 Seiten
...Let Sporus tremble — A. What ! that tiling of silk ? Sporus ! that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks...This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings ! Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys ; Yet wit ne'er tastes and beauty ne'er enjoys ; As well-bred... | |
| 1848 - 738 Seiten
...A. What ! that thing of silk ? Sporus ! that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, aias, can Sporus feel, Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel...This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings ! Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes nor beauty ne'er enjoys ; As well-bred... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 602 Seiten
...thing of silk t Sporus ! that mere white curd of ass's milk 1 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sponis feel 1 Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me...This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes and beauty ne'er enjoys ; As well-bred... | |
| 1848 - 636 Seiten
...of silk? Sporus! that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas 1 can Sporus feel ? Who_ brea"ks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap...This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings : Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes and beauty ne'er enjoys ; As well-bred... | |
| John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 606 Seiten
...wheel ? ' London ' had sneered at " Hervey's jest," which he afterwards changed to " Clodio's jest." 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 ne'er tastes and beauty ne'er enjoys ; As well-bred... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 Seiten
...Let Sporus tremble h — A. What 1 that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks...This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : i Sir William... | |
| 1849 - 820 Seiten
...curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense alas! can Sporus feel 7 Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? F. 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 ne'er tastes and beauty ne'er enjoys ; As well-bred... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 Seiten
...stead. Let Sporas tremble— A. What? that thing ef silk, Sporus, that mem white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel? Who breaks...a wheel? P. Yet let me. flap this bug with gilded wing?, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings : Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys,... | |
| 1852 - 874 Seiten
...Sporus tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ! Satire of rayer * ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, fet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred... | |
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