 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
 | J. McLaverty - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 286 pages
...(3u-1l In To Arhuthnot the failure in penetration, already present in Atticus, is given a new emphasis: Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys. Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er en joys . . . (First edition, 5oo-1l If in the I erses Pope is a porcupine unahle to wound with his... | |
 | D. H. Lawrence - Literary Collections - 2003 - 724 pages
...There may be a memory of the image of the insect in Pope's 'Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot' (1735), 11. 308-9: 'Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings - / This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings.' 49:37 These States. Strongly reminiscent of Whitman (see note on 148:2): cf. the titles 'France, The... | |
 | Kenneth Haynes - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 224 pages
...vulgar terms like pox; Pope uses low Saxon monosyllables like bug, dirt, stink just as effectively: Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded Wings, This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; (Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 11. 310-11; 1734) Rochester and Swift break decorum, or break with decorum,... | |
 | John Carrington - English literature - 2003 - 344 pages
...attacks elsewhere on fools and charlatans in literature and public life are vigorously handled — "Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt, that stinks and sings" (Lord Hervey, in 'The Dunciad') - but the individual feuds have relatively little interest for... | |
 | W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 pages
...stead. Let Sporus tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks...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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 pages
...of afs's milk ? Satire or fenfe, 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 {links and flings j Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Kirk Freudenburg - History - 2005 - 380 pages
...240-75. Le1 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; Whose... | |
 | C. Wayne Owens - 2006 - 137 pages
...development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly . " -Andre Gide "Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? " -Alexander Pope To break a butterfly, or even a beetle, upon a wheel is a delicate task." -EM Forster... | |
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