| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way; Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes,...toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, 320 In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. NOTES. benefit... | |
| Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 474 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks : Or at the car of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes,...himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies : His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squf Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half...himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies ; His wit all see-saw between that and this, - Now... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotenee passed the gnome through this fantastie band, A braneh of healing spleenwort in live, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spita himself abroad, In puns, or polities, or tales,... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes,...himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid let him bear: This interval, Heaven trusts him to our care But to familiartoad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad. En puns, or politics, or tales, or lies,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way : Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes,...at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venotn, spits himself abroad, ID puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 234 pages
...dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, Apd, as the prompter breathes, the puppet sqi Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half...himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies ; His wit all see-saw between that and this, Now... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way: Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes,...puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half-froth, half-venom, spi ts himself abroad : In puns, or politiet, or tales, or lies, Or spile,... | |
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