 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
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1845 - 980 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 ! FOFE. THE wise policy which had led the unpopular King to assume a particular graciousness towards... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 366 pages
...thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd Of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus t'eel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet let me flap this hug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and sings; I tnerely mention one instance... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - Great Britain - 1848 - 440 pages
...Let Sporus tremble — A. What ! that tiling 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 ; As well-bred... | |
 | 1848 - 738 pages
...A. What ! that thing of silk ? Sporus ! that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, aias, can Sporus feel, Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel...This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings ! Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes nor beauty ne'er enjoys ; As well-bred... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 602 pages
...thing of silk t Sporus ! that mere white curd of ass's milk 1 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sponis feel 1 Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me...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 ; As well-bred... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - Literary Criticism - 1949 - 802 pages
...spewed to make the batter.46 Mr. Pope is more refined, and actually makes his vulgarities melodious : Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings.*? However, all the 'classical' satirists of the baroque period avoided the oddities, the neologisms,... | |
 | W. M. Ormrod - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 156 pages
...lme ziH of the Old English poem, which says (hat Beowulfs ship crosses the sea "most like a bird.' Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings. By displaying so forcefully and variously the ways in which the discipline of meter guides and shapes... | |
 | Rowland McMaster - Allusions in literature - 1991 - 220 pages
...crawls, and stings and stinks' (p. 716), echoing Pope's fierce lines from the 'Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot': Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings. Characters frequently speak in unmarked passages of English verse, no doubt reflecting the nineteenth-century... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Quotations, English - 1992 - 1172 pages
...SeCePo 9 Let Sporus tremble — 'What? That thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? lunged Seneca. Nor upon all things to obtrude And force some odd similitude. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...enemies: 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. . .... | |
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