 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...white curd of Ass's milk3? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet let me flap this bug 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 enjoys: So well-bred... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 966 pages
...milk ? Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let mo . Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yo ; Wbose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 168 pages
...curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet let me flap this bug 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 enjoys : So well-bred... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug 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 enjoys : So well-bred... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 pages
...curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 310 Whose buz? the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Americanisms - 1872 - 700 pages
...themselves at the American habit of calling their beetles bugs, but forget their own great poet's lines : " Let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings." (Pope.) We speak thus of May-bugs and June-bugs, of Golden Bugs and even of Lightning-Bugs, instead... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Americanisms - 1872 - 702 pages
...themselves at the American habit of calling their beetles bugs, but forget their own great poet's lines : " Let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings." (Pope.) We speak thus of May-bugs and June-bugs, of Golden Bugs and even of Lightning-Bugs, instead... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Americanisms - 1872 - 706 pages
...themselves at the American habit of calling their beetles bugs, but forget their own great poet's lines : " Let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings." (Pope.) We speak thus of May-bugs and June-bugs, of Golden Bugs and even of Lightning-Bugs, instead... | |
 | G. Douglas Atkins - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 172 pages
..."Antithesis" and an "Amphibious Thing," both male and female, oscillating "between that and this": Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings, This painted...ne'er enjoys, So well-bred Spaniels civilly delight ln mumbling of the Game they dare not bite. Eternal Smiles his Emptiness betray, As shallow streams... | |
 | 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, the neologisms,... | |
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Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings... 
