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 enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight... The Literary Character - Stran 181avtor: Isaac Disraeli - 1822Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 strani
...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 f "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Yet let me flap this... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 strani
...silence if you keep, The town, the court, the whs, the dunces weep. Let Sporus tremble— A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 strani
...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 Ass's milk ? 306 NOTES. Ver. 299. Who to the Dean, and silver bell, &c.] Meaning the man who would have persuaded... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 strani
...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 ass's milk? Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel, Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet let me flap this... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 strani
...honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. LetSporus tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? NOTES. Whose modest manners virtue's self approves, Whom wisdom leads through learning's inmost groves,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 strani
...honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporns tremble — A. What ? she saw the blow, A*tonish'd, gave a dreadful shriek ; And mo ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 strani
...honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockhenrfs in his stend. Let Sporus tremble— A. What? he eyes of young coquettes to roll. Teach infant cheeks a hidd ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? j Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 strani
...same power and the same variety — where will you find them ? (1) [" I.et Sporus 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 a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 strani
...but he cannot escape from his certain fate, — that of becoming tiresome to his pretended admirers. The confidential confession of Racine to his son is...that I am sought after by the great for my dramas ; Cornetlle composes nobler verses than mine, but no one notices him, and he only pleases by the mouth... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 strani
...honest man shall dread, But all such hahhling hlockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremhle— A. What? ope t Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who hreaks a hutterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap... | |
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