 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
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...which she gave an account in a series of elegant and entertaining letters, very characteristical of Satire or Sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? NOTES. the manners of the Turks, and of which many are addressed to Pope ; are well known, and justly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...she gave an account in a series of elegant and entertaining letters, very characteristical of NOTES. Satire or Sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? the manners of the Turks, and of which many are addressed to Pope ; are well known, and justly celebrated.... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...Let Sporus tremble — A . What ? that thing of silk , Sporus, that mere white curd of asses' 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...stead. Let Sporns tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? r Tellu» ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 462 pages
...Sporus tremble — A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel, Who breaks a butterfly...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...did not find him a philosopher, you will make him one; for he will be wise enough to take the benefit 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...Walpole ; ind this was sufficiently offensive to Pope. The fact that paricularly excited his indignation Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? NOTES. tion, was Lord H.'s Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity (Dr. Sherwin) from a Nobleman at Hampton... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...Walpole ; and this was sufficiently offensive to Pope. The fact that particularly excited his indignation Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? NOTES. tion, was Lord H.'s Epistle to a Doctor of Divinity (Dr. Sherwin) from a Nobleman at Hampton... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...stead. Let Sporus tremble— .4. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of asses' 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white eurd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! ean Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel...let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted ehild of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes,... | |
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