 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
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...link'd the general frame, And bade self-love and social be the same. THE TRUE CHARACTER OF A POET. Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's fool, Not Lucre's madman, nor Ambition's tool, i John Dryden (1631-1700) may be termed the founder of the modern English style in prose and verse.... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, forms our mortal port, As full, as perfect, in a hair...He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all. X. pleas'd, he pleas'd by manly ways : That flattery, ev'n to kings, he held a shame. And thought a,lie... | |
 | English literature - 1853 - 956 pages
...his independence of spirit, and furnished a •lotto which any Englishman would be proud to adopt : " Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool, Not...servile ; be one poet's praise. That if he pleased he pirated by manly Kayi ; That (lattery e'en to kings he held a shame. And thought a lie in Terse or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...a lord. 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 :... | |
 | James Hannay - Satire - 1854 - 292 pages
...concludes : " Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed, — 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." This Satire, or libel if you like, has every merit which such a work can have : brilliance, epigram,... | |
 | James Hannay - Satire - 1854 - 296 pages
...concludes : " Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed, — 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." This Satire, or libel if you like, has every merit which such a work can have: brilliance, epigram)... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Not Fortune's worshipper, nor 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1855 - 584 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 licks the dust.' " Now, is there a line of all the passage without the most forcible imagery (for his purpose) * Look... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...all the rest, 1 ' Sporus : ' Lord Hervey. P I Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, 332 Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust....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 - 1856 - 352 pages
...all the rest, 1 ' Sporas : ' Lord Hervey. P Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, 332 Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust....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 maze... | |
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