 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?" Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings, This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; Whose...  Peerage of England. ... - Page 156by Arthur Collins - 1812Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 lehte
...honest man shall dread, 15 ut all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus! that mere white curd of asses' milk? 306 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 lehte
...mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. : Sporus tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus ! that mere white curd of asses' milk ? 306 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ! Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 lehte
...thought: SIDNEY and WALLER, brightest sons of fame, Condemn'd the charm of ages to the flame.f 25. Let Sporus tremble— 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? Yet let... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 lehte
...SIDNEY and WALLER, brightest sons of fame, Condemn'd the charm of ages to the flanie.f 25. Let Spprus tremble— What ! that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ! Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? ,:s.'j Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 lehte
...no honest man shall dread, Bat all such hahhling hlockheads in his stead. Let .Spot us 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 thU hug with gilded wings, This painted child... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 lehte
...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 asses' milk? S06 Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel! Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 lehte
...tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, 305 Sporus! that mere white curd of asses' milk ? oatire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ?— Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? ''. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, r''is painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 472 lehte
...mind that sub. jccts every gratification of sense to the rule of right reason." Pope calls him, « That thing of silk, " Sporus that mere white curd of asses'? milk ;" and perhaps by the bitterness of his invective, vindicates the very character he would blast. Pope... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 lehte
...no honest man shall dread, But all such habbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremble— A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of asses' milk 'i Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel t Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? /'. Yet let me flap... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 lehte
...such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremble— .-1. What ? that thing of silk, •porus, that mere white curd of asses' milk ? Satire or sense,...Sporus feel .* Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles... | |
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