 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 470 páginas
...genius : — " Let Sporus tremble! 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 a wheel ? Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 páginas
...genius : — " Let Sporus tremble I what I that thing of silk ! Sporus, that mere white 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... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1845 - 978 páginas
...STATE BALL. Let Sporus tremble ! 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 a wheel ! FOFE. THE wise policy which had led the unpopular King to assume a particular graciousness... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 320 páginas
...mine no honest man shall dread, But all such hahhling hlockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremhle — A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white...milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who hreaks a hutterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this hug with gilded wings, This painted child... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 366 páginas
...any two existing poets, of the same power and the same variety — where will you find them ? (1) [" Let Sporus tremble A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus,...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 páginas
...fiction lie ; A lash like mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremble — A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? 306 NOTES. Ver. 299. Who to the Dean and silver bell, $e.] Meaning the man who would have persuaded... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 606 páginas
...undoubtedly is, is too large an item in Lord Hervey's history to be omitted even from this sketch : — P. Let Sporus tremble — A. What ! that thing of...sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? ' London ' had sneered at " Hervey's jest," which he afterwards changed to " Clodio's... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 440 páginas
...history to be omitted even from this sketch : — P.- Let Sporus tremble — A. What ! that tiling of silk ? Sporus ! that mere white curd of ass's milk...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... | |
 | 1848 - 738 páginas
...in one of the most brilliant and popular sallies of min»Hed invective and sarcasm ever published. P. Let Sporus tremble — A. What ! that thing of...that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, aias, can Sporus feel, Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded... | |
 | 1848 - 636 páginas
...Hervey's fopperies." But let us now look at Pope's portrait with our editor's framing : — " P. LetSporus tremble — A. What ! that thing of silk? Sporus!...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 this bug with gilded... | |
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A. What ? 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 a wheel ? P. 
