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" 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 dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.... "
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &c - Page 23
by Alexander Pope - 1751
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...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...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...
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Oeuvres, Volume 1

Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 474 pages
...tremble — A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, 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...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, ns of royalty? The law shall still direct my peaceful...obey : Votes shall no more establish'd * ground stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 6

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...not find him a philosopher, you will make him one ; fir he vill be wise enough to take the benefit P. 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...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 6

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...not find him a philosopfier, . you will make him one ; for he will be wise enough to take the benefit P. 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...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...tremble— .4. 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...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...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white eurd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! ean Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel...let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted ehild of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

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...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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...tremble — A. What? that thing of «Hk, Sporne, that mere white curd of ass's milk Î Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon...a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wlng-я, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys,...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

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...
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