...the utmost bitterness of contempt. We think we are here reading Milton against Salmasius." WARTON. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the...puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half-froth, half- venom, spits himself abroad." It concludes : "Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have...

...just. Pope calls Hervey an insect, annoying the witty and the fair with his buzz; a reptile, who " At the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad " in lying, tale-bearing, and spite (Eve is l 2 Queen Caroline); an effeminate, " amphibious thing,"...

...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. Whether...toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies : His wit all...

...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. Whether...puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad ! Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad, 320 In puns or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite,...

...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. Whether...puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad ! Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad, /' 320 In puns or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite,...

...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. Whether...toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies ; His wit all...

...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. Whether...toad! Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad. In pun, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies, His \\it all...

...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. Whether...toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies ; His wit all...

...House of Commons — ш the confidential intimate of queen Caroline — Hervey is thus delineated : " Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet fqueaks ; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, halfveuom, spits himself abroad, In puns,...

...civilly delight * In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether...toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or Ires, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies ; His wit all...