 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 lehte
...not find him a philosopfier, . you will make him one ; for he will be wise enough to take the benefit 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 lehte
...not find him a philosopher, you will make him one ; fir he vill be wise enough to take the benefit 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... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 lehte
...tremble— .4. 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 lehte
...tremble— A. What? that tiling of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire of ttnse, 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 - 1828 - 264 lehte
...? that thin^of silk Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas! can Spores feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet...with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that sticks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 806 lehte
...criticism, chaunts their praises and their demerits in strains divine, and then, with a mortal blow, 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 794 lehte
...night, A bell was heard to ring ; And shrieking at her window thrice The raven flapped his wing. Ticket. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, thatstiuks and stings, Pope. I write to you by way atjlopper, to put you in mind, &c. Cheiterfleld.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 lehte
...A BUC'CIM its. J stinking insect. In the following passage wings are erroneously ascribed to it Vet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, which stinks and stings. BUG 555 of small and larger growth. In Gothic it is Itugg, from ugf, in Saxon... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 lehte
...that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of asses' milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporns openings and prophecies, and spoke unto the people...which they heard with attention and silence, and we stinKs and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 360 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 sings ; I merely mention one instance of many, in reply to the injustice done to the memory... | |
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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.... 
