 | 1809 - 402 lehte
...tremble. — A. What ! that thing of silk? Sporits, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 lehte
...of ass's milk I 306 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel I P. Yet 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 tastes, and beauty... | |
 | William Coxe - 1816 - 464 lehte
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 lehte
...silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who break* , Rees, Orme & Brown stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and tlie fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 lehte
...Spurns, that mere white curd of 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... | |
 | 1822 - 284 lehte
...tremble—A. W hat ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of asses' milk ? Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 lehte
...correcting 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... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 lehte
...tremble — A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel, Who breaks a butterfly upon...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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 lehte
...tremble — A . What ? that thing of silk , Sporus, that mere white curd of asses' milk? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 lehte
...tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, ns of royalty? The law shall still direct my peaceful...obey : Votes shall no more establish'd * ground stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er... | |
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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.... 
