 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last ... - Page 39by Alexander Pope - 1760Full view - About this book
 | 1848 - 636 lehte
...the way : Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad ! Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, ID pun or politics, or tales or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.:... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 lehte
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad ', Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.... | |
 | 1849 - 820 lehte
...all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks And as the prompter breathes the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad ! Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In pun or politics, or tales or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1851 - 370 lehte
...extraordinary merit. Where shall we find more meaning, more keenly expressed, than in the lines — " Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad 1 " Though, perhaps, it would have been still better if the allusion had been... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 lehte
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad ! * Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, 320 In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 lehte
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 lehte
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1878 - 592 lehte
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the Prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks : Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad! Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad. In pun, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 lehte
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks,' And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or Ires, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1864 - 324 lehte
...Dunciad" Pope has the line, "Even Palinurus nodded at the helm." What is the point of this line ? 63. " Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad." Of whom is Pope here speaking ? and who is intended by Eve ? 64. " Ask you why... | |
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