 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
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1833 - 678 pages
...20. A cherub's face. 21. A reptile all the rest. 22. The Rabbins. 23. Pride that lichs the dust. ' Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.' ' Now, is there a line of all the passage without the ' most forcible imagery (for his purpose)? Look... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express'd, 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." Prol. to Sat.] that Johnson has said, after some hesitation, that he could not " prevail upon himself... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; 331 Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. some deduction for the language of a preface, and still more for the language of a man like Middleton.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1835 - 396 pages
...20. A cherub's face. 21. A reptile, all the rest. 22. The Rabbins. 23. Pride that licks the dust. " ' Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that lictt the dust.' " Now, is there a line of all the passage without the most forcible imagery (for his... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rahhins have expresa'd, A cheruh's face, and reptile all the rest : foul clot@ l* amhition's tool, Not proud, nor servile : he one poet's praise, That, if he pleased, he pleased hy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 320 pages
...tempter thus the rahbins have express'd, A cheruh's face, and reptile all the rest : Beauty that shucks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep,...the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's foul, Not lucre's madman, nor amhition's toul, Not proud, nor servile : he one poet's praise, That,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus, the Rabbins have exprest, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...proud, nor servile ; be one poet's praise, That, if he pleas'd, he pleas'd by manly ways : That flattery, ev'n to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...exprest, A cherub's face, a reptile all the' rest. Beauty that shocks youx parts that none will trust, Not Fortune's, worshipper, nor Fashion's fool, Not...proud, nor servile ; be one poet's praise, That, if he pleas'd, he pleas'd by manly ways : That flattery, ev'n to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, ho pleased by manly ways : That flattery, even to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie in verse... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1839 - 584 pages
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabins have exprest, 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." Such also was the opinion of the Attorney-general, afterwards Lord Mansfield, who, when Johnson's famous... | |
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