 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 lehte
...tremble — A. 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...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... | |
 | 1872 - 900 lehte
...asses' milk ? Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? ЛУ1ю breaks a butterfly upon a wheel Î ess stinks and stings ; "Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 706 lehte
...themselves at the American habit of calling their beetles bugs, but forget their own great poet's lines : " Let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings." (Pope.) We speak thus of May-bugs and June-bugs, of Golden Bugs and even of Lightning-Bugs,... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 702 lehte
...themselves at the American habit of calling their beetles bugs, but forget their own great poet's lines : " Let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings." (Pope.) We speak thus of May-bugs and June-bugs, of Golden Bugs and even of Lightning-Bugs,... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - 1872 - 700 lehte
...themselves at the American habit of calling their beetles bugs, but forget their own great poet's lines : " Let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings." (Pope.) We speak thus of May-bugs and June-bugs, of Golden Bugs and even of Lightning-Bugs,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 lehte
...Sporus tremble. — A. What ? that thing Sporus, that mere white curd of asses' milk ? Satire of sense, stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 lehte
...spewed to make the batter.46 Mr. Pope is more refined, and actually makes his vulgarities melodious : Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings.*? However, all the 'classical' satirists of the baroque period avoided the oddities,... | |
 | W. M. Ormrod - 1990 - 156 lehte
...lme ziH of the Old English poem, which says (hat Beowulfs ship crosses the sea "most like a bird.' Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings. By displaying so forcefully and variously the ways in which the discipline of meter... | |
 | Rowland McMaster - 1991 - 220 lehte
...crawls, and stings and stinks' (p. 716), echoing Pope's fierce lines from the 'Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot': Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings. Characters frequently speak in unmarked passages of English verse, no doubt reflecting... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 lehte
...white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas, can Sporus feel. Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?' hat is it then, which like the power divine We only can by negatives define? 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.... 
