 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 476 pages
...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 buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 pages
...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 buzz the witty and the fair annoys. Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...evinced the orthodoxy of Mr. Pope's principles ; but, like the old Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporns feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet...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... | |
 | 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
...— A. What ! that tiling of silk ? Sporus ! that mere white curd of ass's 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... | |
 | 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...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 nor beauty ne'er... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 636 pages
...of silk? Sporus! that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas 1 can Sporus feel ? Who_ brea"ks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap...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... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - Great Britain - 1848 - 606 pages
...wheel ? ' London ' had sneered at " Hervey's jest," which he afterwards changed to " Clodio's jest." 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...tremble h — A. What 1 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...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... | |
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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.... 
