Now high, now low, now 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 toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. The Edinburgh Review - Página 1691842Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 366 páginas
...the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express *d, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." Prol, to Sot] that Johnson has said,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 páginas
...a part ? A trifling head, and a corrupted heart. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express'd, 330 A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's... | |
| John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 606 páginas
...corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust !" Though the substance and many of the sharpest points of this bitter invective as well as of the... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 602 páginas
...the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord ! Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have eipress'd, A cherub's face — a reptile all the rest : Beauty...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." " Though the substance and many of the sharpest points of this bitter invective, as well as of the... | |
| John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 608 páginas
...trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face—a reptile all the rest! Beauty that shocks you, parts...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust!" Though the substance and many of the sharpest points of this bitter invective as well as of the prose... | |
| 1848 - 636 páginas
...corrupted heart — Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord ! Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face — a reptile all the rest : В«ашy that shocks you, parts that none can trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the... | |
| 1849 - 820 páginas
...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 ! Beauty...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." There is no eecape from the effect of such a closing, as that, of the venomous teeth ; Pope was a bitter,... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 páginas
...corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's...the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's... | |
| Hartley Coleridge - 1851 - 370 páginas
...thought, and lame in expression. Hobhouse, in his Radical days, applied the last couplet to Canning — " Beauty that shocks you, parts that none can trust,...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." In sentences thus balanced, it is naturally to be expected that if one member involve an antithesis,... | |
| 1852 - 874 páginas
...at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust, Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's... | |
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