 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.  The Poetical Works - Page 112by Alexander Pope - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...express'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trnst, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust....worshipper, nor fashion's fool, Not lucre's madman, nor amhition's tool, Not proud, nor servile ; be one poet's praise, That if he pleas'd he pleas'd by manly... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 504 pages
...lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have exprest, A cherub's face, a. reptile all the rest; Beanty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that...fool, Not lucre's madman, nor ambition's tool, Not prond, nor servile; be one poet's praise, That if he pleas'd he pleas'd by manly WHVS , That flattery,... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have exprcss'd : A cherub's fare, a reptile all the rest. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dwt, Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool, Not lucre's madman, nur ambition's tool, , Not proud,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...a lord. . Ete's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd : A cherub's fare, a reptile all the rest. t 'twas of old to thntjicl;* ihe dust. N-'' fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool, Not lucre's madman, nor ambition's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest, 33tt A cherub's face., a reptile all the rest. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...dust, . Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's fool, Kot Lucre's madtmin. nor Ambition's tool, Not proud, nor sen i!e ; be one poet's prnise, That, if he... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...cherub's face, a reptile all then-lit Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that ran creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's fool, Not Lucre's marlinan, nor Ambition's tool, Not proud , nor .sen ile ; be one poet's praise, That, if ht- pleas'd,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 350 pages
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest, 330 A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...fashion's fool, Not lucre's madman, nor ambition's tool, 335 Not proud, nor servile ; be one poet's praise, ; That, if he pleas'd, he pleasM by manly ways :... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - 616 pages
...works, at the slavish doctrines maintained by most of the celebrated writers of his time : " be it one poet's praise, " That if he pleased, he pleased by manly ways, " That flattery even to kings he held a shame, '' And thought a lie in verse or prose the same." Which we, that are... | |
 | William Coxe - Prime ministers - 1816 - 464 pages
...lord. " Eve's tempter thus the liabbins have exprest, " A cherub's i'ace, a reptile all the rest, " Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." However I may admire the powers of the satirist, I never could read this passage without disgust and... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have exprcst, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. , and sometimes iinpair'd. dusk Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's fool, Not Lucre's madman, nor Ambition's tool, Not proud,... | |
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