 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...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 117by Alexander Pope - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Christopher Breward - Design - 1995 - 270 pages
...tremble - what? That thing of silk, EIGHTEENTH Sporus, that mere white curd of asses milk? CENTURY Satire or sense alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings . . .... | |
 | William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster - Fiction - 1996 - 362 pages
...Epistle: "Let Sporus tremble — What, that Thing of silk, / Sporus, that mere white Curd of Ass's milk? / Satire or Sense alas! can Sporus feel? / Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?" (lines 305-308). 55 "there are . . . hear.": This is a loose rendering of a passage from "Conference... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 854 pages
...(p. 634) hreaking mere houseflies upon the wheel Cf. Pope, 'Episde to Dr Arbuthnot' (1735), 307-8: 'Satire or Sense, alas! can Sporus feel?/ Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?' 313 (p. 635) harharic Power probably Russia, but possibly Turkey. See Notes I if. .ind 369. 314 (p.... | |
 | Ian McCormick - English literature - 1997 - 276 pages
...of ass's of silk, milk? Satire or sense alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?' 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 In puns, in politics,... | |
 | William Bowman Piper - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...demonstrates sympathy with the generality of ladies and gentlemen, likening Sporus to a perverse bee "Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys, / Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er enjoys." Toward the close of the attack, he feels that he has established the point that Sporus's beauty "shocks... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...8856 'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot' Who breaks a butterBy upon a wheel? 8857 'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot' 8858 'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot' Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...stead. Let Sporus tremble—'What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?' Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 310... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker, Zwicker Steven N. - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 362 pages
...(representing the hated Lord Hervey), Arbuthnot tries to inject a note of moderation, or, at least, reason: "Satire or Sense alas! can Sporus feel? / Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?" (lines 307-08). Pope takes the point with the marker, "Yet," but his subsequent rant reveals satire... | |
 | Howard Anderson - Aesthetics, British - 1999 - 419 pages
...When Arbuthnot asks him why he chooses to attack Sporus, "Sporus, that mere white Curd of Ass's milk? "Satire or Sense alas! can Sporus feel? "Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?" 24. Ibid., IV, 192. 25. Brink, Horace on Poetry, p. 191. "that Thing of silk, (11.305-8) Pope's reply... | |
 | John Sitter - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 322 pages
...the Horace figure of the opening lines is at odds with the aggressive glee of the attack on Hervey - "Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings" (lines 309-10) - as well as with the lofty tones of the satirist who "stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd... | |
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