 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 - 1825 - 536 pages
...stead. 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 a butterfly upon a wheel ? Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoye : So well-bred... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...tremble— A. What? that tiling of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire of ttnse, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon...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 - 1828 - 264 pages
...? that thin^of silk Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas! can Spores feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet...with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that sticks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 pages
...their praises and thcir demerits in strains divine, and then, with a mortal blow, Yet kt me flap thit 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 welt-bred... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 462 pages
...night, A bell was heard to ring ; And shrieking at her window thrice The raven flapped his wing. Ticket. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings. Pope. I write to you by way of flapper, to put you in mind, &c_ Chesterfield. When a horse has the... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 806 pages
...criticism, chaunts their praises and their demerits in strains divine, and then, with a mortal blow, 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 794 pages
...night, A bell was heard to ring ; And shrieking at her window thrice The raven flapped his wing. Ticket. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, thatstiuks and stings, Pope. I write to you by way atjlopper, to put you in mind, &c. Cheiterfleld.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...A BUC'CIM its. J stinking insect. In the following passage wings are erroneously ascribed to it Vet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, which stinks and stings. BUG 555 of small and larger growth. In Gothic it is Itugg, from ugf, in Saxon... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of asses' milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporns openings and prophecies, and spoke unto the people...with attention and silence, and went away and spread ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? j at a bean. Oft when the world imagine women stray, The Sylphs bus; with gilded wings, [ This painted child of dirt, that Ktinks and stinga : Whose buzz the witty... | |
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