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... Temple Bar - Página 173editado por - 1878Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1764 - 198 páginas
...tremble — A. What ? that thine offilk, Spoi us, that mere white curd of afs's milk i Satire or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butter-fly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flag this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that (links and (lings ; Whofe buz the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 414 páginas
...tremble— A. What ? that thing of filk, Sporus, that mere white curd of Afs's milk ? Satire or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet VARIATION. Why write at all ? — A. Yes, filence if you keep, The Town, the Court, the Wits, the Dunces... | |
| John Bell - 1796 - 480 páginas
...lash like mine no honest man shall dread, 15 ut all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus! that mere white curd of asses' milk? 306 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 472 páginas
...elegant and entertaining letters, very charafteriftical of the manners of the Turks, Satire or Senfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet NOTES. Turks, and of which many are addrefled to Pope ; are well known, and juftly celebrated. With... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 páginas
...A lash like mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. : Sporus tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus ! that mere white curd of asses' milk ? 306 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ! Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 páginas
...25. Let Sporus tremble— What! that thing of silk, i Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ! Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Yet let me flap this Dug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 páginas
...thefe two lines in his Imitation of the firft Satire of Horace's fecond Book ; The Satire or Senfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet NOTES. The lines are weak, another's pleas'd to fay, Lord Fanny fpins a thoufand fuch a day. And Lady... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 páginas
...lash like mine no 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 asses' milk? S06 Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel! Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 páginas
...mine no honest man shall dread, Bat all such hahhling hlockheads in his stead. Let .Spot us tremhle— A. What ! that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of asses' milk? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who hreaks a hutterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap... | |
| John Bell - 1807 - 562 páginas
...tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, 305 Sporus! that mere white curd of asses' milk ? oatire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ?— Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? ''. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, r''is painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings... | |
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