 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 - Poets, English - 1889 - 574 pages
...in a word, men like Sporus. " Not Fortune's worsliipper, not Fashion's fool, Not Lucre's madman, not Ambition's tool, Not proud, nor servile ; be one poet's...pleased, he pleased by manly ways ; That flattery, ev"n to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie in prose or verse the same ; That not in Fancy's... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 956 pages
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have exprest, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the...hall-door, and the charger stood near ; So light ALEXANDER POPE. OG. SHADWKLL, THE DRAMATIST. Now stop your noses, readers, all and some, For here 'sa... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 168 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,...nor servile ; . be one poet's praise, That, if he pleas'd, he pleas'd by manly ways : That flatt'ry, ev'n to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lye... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 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,...proud, nor servile ; be one poet's praise, That, if he pleas'd, he pleas'd by manly ways : That flatt'ry, ev'n to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lye... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...reptile all the rest, 1 ' Sporus : ' Lord Hervey. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, 389 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...struts a Lord. Evfs 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 pleas'd by manly ways:... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1873 - 802 pages
...independence, and had a full right to the boasts in which he possibly indulged a little too freely : — Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's fool, Not...pleased, he pleased by manly ways ; That flattery, even to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie in prose or verse the same. Admitting that the last... | |
 | G. H. V. Bunt, E. S. Kooper, D. R. M. Wilkinson - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 292 pages
...the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, described him as mere white Curd of Ass's milk, and summed him up as: Beauty that shocks you. Parts that none will trust,...Wit that can creep, and Pride that licks the dust. (An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, ll. 332-3) Pope suggested that Hervey was sexually ambiguous, and therefore... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Quotations, English - 1992 - 1172 pages
...between that and this. Now high, now low, now Master up, now Miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. 12 oved and loving me. LiTB; NOBE; NoP; OBEY; OBS; SeCV-1; TrGrPo Ode: Of Wit 9 AWP; ChTr; InPS; NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OBSV; OxBoLi; PoE; PoEL-3; SCV 13 Why did I write? what sin... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 300 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,...Wit that can creep, and Pride that licks the dust. (320-332) In a state of continual Satanic metamorphosis reminiscent of the lampooners' constructions... | |
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