 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...Sporus*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... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1878 - 592 pages
...A. " What ! that thing of silk ? ] Sporus ! that mere white curd of asses' milk P 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... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1874 - 588 pages
...quoted is artificiality, nothing but artificiality. But what is there of artificial in the following ? " 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 Wood Warter - Tarring, West, Eng. (Parish) - 1860 - 526 pages
...times, to do that which is beft for the public good ; to make that your aim, refting aflured that 1 " Satire or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ! Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel!" Pope, Prologue to the Satires. ' Mart. Epigr. X. xxxili. 9. Thus tranflatcd by Ben Jonfon in the Poetafter,... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Tarring, West, Eng. (Parish) - 1860 - 530 pages
...times, to do that which is beft for the public good ; to make that your aim, refting aflured that 1 "Satire or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ! Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ! " Pope, Prologue to the Satires. * Mart. Epigr. X. xxxiii. 9. Thus tranflated by Ben Jonlbn in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...tremble — A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of asses' milk ? 8 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon...P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted9 child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; ' An allusion to those who endeavoured to persuade... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas, can Sporus feel. Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?' hat is it then, which like the power divine We only can by negatives define? stinks and stings; Whose buzz 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.... 
