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. The Edinburgh Review - Página 1691842Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Coxe - 1816 - 464 páginas
...ridicule, in allusion to his effeminate appearance, as a species of half-man and half-woman, which " P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, " This painted child of dirt, that stinks and sings, &c. " Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, " As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. "... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...ass's milk ? Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who break* a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown buzz the witty and tlie fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 402 páginas
...ass's milk ? Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks i butterfly upon a wheel ? 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 enjoys : So well-bred spaniels... | |
| 1822 - 284 páginas
...asses' milk ? Satire of 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; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 páginas
...it; and brightening it, as he expresses it, by the strokes of his pencil ? The man that had 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 páginas
...brightening it, as he expresses it, by the strokes of his pencil ? The man that had NOTES. 45 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... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 páginas
...asses' 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 ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well bred spaniels... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 498 páginas
...find him a philosopher, you will make him one ; fir he vill be wise enough to take the benefit 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 enjoys : So well-bred spaniels... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 páginas
...of ass's milk? Satire of 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 ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 páginas
...him a philosopfier, . you will make him one ; for he will be wise enough to take the benefit 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 enjoys : So well-bred spaniels... | |
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