 | Edward Vaughan Kenealy - 1869 - 336 pages
...curd of asses' milk ? Satire or sense alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon the wheel ? Eternal smiles his emptiness betray As shallow streams...toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad. Amphibious thing that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart. Fop at the toilet,... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...help'd to bury whom he help'd to starve ; he pictures another (Lord Hervey, a literary peer) thus — Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams...toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies ; His wit all... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 310 Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So...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... | |
 | Edward Wortley Montagu - 1870 - 544 pages
...card of asses' milk? Satire or sense alas ! can Sporus 1'eol ? Who breaks a butterfly upon the wheel? "Eternal smiles his emptiness betray As shallow streams...all the way; Whether in florid impotence he speaks, Audits the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve,* familiar toad, Half froth,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings ; Wbose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, ad upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to...frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies ; His wit all... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 310 Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So...puppet squeaks.; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad ! Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad, 320 In puns or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit@ : Л nd, as the prompter breathes, the puppe t squeaks, Or at the ear of F.ve, familiar toad, Half froth,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, .315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether...speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeak^ ; Or at the ear of £z'f, familiar Toad4, Half froth6, half venom, spits himself abroad, .... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Y'et wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So...toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies ; His wit all... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...not bile. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. iVhether 0 7 7 lalf froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, n puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or... | |
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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.... 
