 Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.  Satires and Epistles - Page 33by Alexander Pope - 1881 - 164 pagesFull view - About this book
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...of ass's milk I 306 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel I P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 774 pages
...miltrefs. Shak. K. Lear. He with mumbled prayers atones the deity. Drjden's juv. i. To mouth gently. — Spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Pope. 3. To flubberover; tofupprefs; to utter imperfectly. — The raifing of my rabble is an exploit... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and tlie rst, Rees, Orme & Brown i Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, { As sliallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid... | |
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...flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 310 Whose buz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes,...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 310 Whose buz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes,...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
 | William Frederick Deacon - 1823 - 494 pages
...sulphureous waves of Tartarus, will be in no hurry for a second warm-bath. CHARACTER »Tommcm-plarr " Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way."—POPE. THERE is a class of persons, indigenous to England, which appears to have escaped the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way; Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way; Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way; Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness... | |
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