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...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...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter...

...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...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter...

...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,...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter...

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...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. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, 1 Meaning the man who would have persuaded the Duke of Chandos that Pope meant to ridicule him in the...

...Spite, or Smut, or Rymes, or Blasphemies. Pope makes appropriate use of the apt, devastating simile, in Eternal Smiles his Emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way; the startling metaphor, emphasised by the use of a triplet to exploit the idea of swinging with see-saw-like...

...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...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...