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" Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord. "
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Satires, &c - Page 24
by Alexander Pope - 1751
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Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th Century Writing

Ian McCormick - English literature - 1997 - 276 pages
...corrupted heart! not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a lady, now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks,...
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Swords in Myrtle Dress'd: Towards a Rhetoric of Sodom : Gay Readings of ...

Jon Thomas Rowland - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 254 pages
...the lesser writers— his uncontainable "amphibiousness": Amphibious Thing! that acting either Part, The trifling Head, or the corrupted Heart! Fop at...Flatt'rer at the Board, Now Trips a lady, and now struts a Lord. (Epistle toArbuthnot, lines 326-29) What is frightening about this Hervey, and consequently...
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Pope, Print, and Meaning

J. McLaverty - Authors and publishers - 2001 - 286 pages
...Master up, now Miss, And he himself one vile Antithesis: Amphibious Thing! that acting either part. The trifling head, or the corrupted heart, Fop at...Flatt'rer at the Board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord. (Works, 3i5-2i, lineation confusedl But of all this passage, only one modified couplet...
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W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse

W. H. Auden - Poetry - 2004 - 604 pages
...master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the...flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have expressed, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest;...
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Alexander Pope and His Critics: An essay on the genius and writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 pages
...lyes, Or fpite, or fmut, or rhymes, or blafphemies.— Amphibious thing ! that acling either parr, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart, Fop at...flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now firms a lord. Eve's tempter thus, the rabbins have expreft, A cherub's face, a reptile all the reft,...
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The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of ...

Michael McKeon - History - 2005 - 1864 pages
...Master up, now Miss, And he himself one vile Antithesis. Amphibious Thing! that acting either Part, The trifling Head, or the corrupted Heart! Fop at...Flatt'rer at the Board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord. Eve s Tempter thus die Rabbins have exprest, A Cherub's face, a Reptile all the rest;...
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The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope

Pat Rogers - Literary Criticism - 2007
...treated with more loathing as an effete, epicene thing. Amphibious Thing! that acting either Part, The trifling Head, or the corrupted Heart! Fop at...Flatt'rer at the Board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord. (TE, iv, p. 119) In this case, however, Lady Mary had the last laugh. Showing a friend...
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Selected Poems of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1926 - 312 pages
...Toad ! Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, 320 Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart; Fop at...flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest, 330 A Cherub's face, a reptile all the...
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