| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...— A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus ! that mere white curd of asses' milk ? 306 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ! Who breaks a butterfly upon...with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 310 Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...have kindnefs ia refcrve, He hc"lp°d to bury whom he help'd to ftarve. can Sporus f< Who breaks • butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, May fo.Tc choice patron bkfs each grey gooff This paipted child of dirt, that ft inks and ftmgs; quill... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...tliat thing o Ink? Sfirvi, that mere white curd of afs's milk ? Satire or f'enfe, alas! can Sforut feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet...with gilded wings This painted child of dirt, that ilinks and ftings Whole buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tiftcs, and beauty ne'«r... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 pages
...of Sporus ; it feems a more fuitable name. There is, I believe, no account why it wai altered. E 4 P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that {links and flings ; 310 Whole buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...of Sporus ; it feems a more fuitable name. There is, I believe, no account why it wa» altered. « 4 P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that (links and flings 5319 Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...thefe two lines in his Imitation of the firft Satire of Horace's fecond Book ; The Satire or Senfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet NOTES. The lines are weak, another's pleas'd to fay, Lord Fanny fpins a thoufand fuch a day. And Lady... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...— A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus! that mere white curd of asses' milk? S06 Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel! Who breaks a butterfly upon...with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; 310 Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes. and heauty ne'er... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...of asses' milk 'i Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel t 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 buzz the witty and the fair aunoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...tremble. — A. What ! that thing of silk? Sporits, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon...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... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...tremble. — A. \Vhali that thing of silk ? Spans, thai mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ?• P. Yetletincflap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose... | |
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