 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
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 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... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1840 - 446 pages
...malice. " 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? ****** Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart, Fop at... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Sporus tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk Î Satire of ected light. Some flying stroke alone can hit them right : Tor how Î P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings;... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - 580 pages
...take a few specimens from the famous 'character of Sporus,' to which Lord Byron here refers:— 'Yes, let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings : .1 Whose buz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys. . Eternal... | |
 | Arts - 1842 - 586 pages
...a few specimens from the famous 'character of Sporus,' to which Lord Byron here refers : — 'Yes, let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings : Whose buz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys. Eternal smiles... | |
 | 1842 - 584 pages
...a few specimens from the famous 'character of Sporus,' to which Lord Byron here refers : — 'Yes, let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and sting* : Whose buz the witty and ihe fair annoys, , Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 476 pages
...genius:— ; " Let Sporus tremble ! 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 ? Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; Whose... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 pages
...— " Let Sporus tremble I what I 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 ? Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings ; Whose... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...Sporus tremble — A. What ' that thing of silk Sportis, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire of r honied domes, Convolved, and agonizing in the dust. And was it th ! F, Yet lei me flap this bug with gilded wing*. This painted child of dirt, llial stink* and Mings... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1845 - 332 pages
...BALL. Let Sporus tremble ! 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 ! POPE. THE wise policy which had led the unpopular King to assume a particular graciousness towards... | |
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