 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 - 1846 - 320 pages
...express'd, A cheruh's face, and reptile all the rest : Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trast, 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 : he one poet's praise, That, if he pleased, he pleased hy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...heart. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express'd, 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 pleased, he pleased by manly ways ; That... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Great Britain - 1847 - 426 pages
...Sporus : — " 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."* Upon the Duke of Grafton, who is mentioned in Lord Hervey's letters, Swift has penned the following... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 396 pages
...two last lines, and the force of " weep" in the second as contrasted with " laugh" in the first 6. " Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool, Not...praise That if he pleased, he pleased by manly ways." Paraphrase these four lines in prose, and explain their grammatical construction. 7. " Relentless walls... | |
 | Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 pages
...two last lines, and the force of " weep" in the second as contrasted with " laugh" in the first. 6. " Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool, Not...praise That if he pleased, he pleased by manly ways." Paraphrase these four lines in prose, and explain their grammatical construction. 7. " Relentless walls... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rahhins have express'd, A cheruh's face, and reptile all the rest : Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion fool, Not lucre's madman, nor amhition's tout, Not proud, nor servile : he one poet's praise,... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1848 - 796 pages
...greatly esteemed in my youthful days, although not much read at the present time — ' Not For une's worshipper, nor Fashion's fool, Not Lucre's madman,...proud nor servile ; be one poet's praise, That, if he pleas'd, he pleas'd by manly ways ; That flattery, even to kings, he held л shame, And thought a lit'... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 638 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,...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 : That not in fancy's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 628 pages
...will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion' fool, Not lucre's madman, nor ambition's tool, Not...poet's praise, That, if he pleased, he pleased by manly way* That flattery, e'en to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie in verse or prose the same; That... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pages
...20. A cherub's face. 21: A reptile all the reit. 22. The Rabbins. 23. Pride that licks the iliut. " ' Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and prid¿ that licts the dust.' " Now, is there a line of all the passage ¡! without the most forcible... | |
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