 Let Sporus tremble ! 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 a wheel ? Yet, let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that...  Satire and Satirists - Seite 154von James Hannay - 1855 - 235 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 Seiten
...quoted is artificiality, nothing but artificiality. But what is there of artificial in the following ? " Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted...stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes and beauty ne'er en joy a. So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of... | |
 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745 - 426 Seiten
...-of Afs's M-flk ? " Satire or Senfe das ! can Sforui feel ? " Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel I" Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded Wings, This painted Child of Di-it, that ftwks mid ftings, WhofeBuzz die Witty and' the Fair annoys, Yet Wit ne'er taftes, nor Beauty... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 288 Seiten
...Afs's milk ? 306 Satire or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that {links and flings; 310 Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tafles, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 Seiten
...your Stains^ Spin all your Cobwebs] And again, to the fame purpofe, in the Epijile to Dr. Arbuthnot^ Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? Yet let me flap...bug with gilded wings, This painted child of Dirt, \hatjlinks undoings. Thefe, it is objected, are Infe&s not of Nature's creating, but the Poet's, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 278 Seiten
...Afs's milk ? 306 Satire or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that ftinks and flings; 310 Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 360 Seiten
...Arbuibntt, Spin all your Cobwebs o'er the Eye of Day! The MUSE'S wing fliall brufli you all away: NOTES. *' Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? " Yet let me...bug with gilded wings, " This painted child of Dirt, thaty?f'n& and _/?/'ȣ/.' Thefe (it has been objected) are Infects not of Nature's creating, but... | |
 | Voltaire - 1765 - 228 Seiten
...tremble ! what, that thing of filk ? Sporus, that mere white curd of afles mille? Satire or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon...with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that ftinks and ftings ; Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er talk's, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1769 - 618 Seiten
...in the moft coma Englijb Poet that ever wrote.—Let me (fays Pope, fpeaking of Iporus) — — — Flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that ftinks and ftings ; Whofe buz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tajiei, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 Seiten
...all ?—A. Yes, Silence if you keep, The Town, the Court, the Wits, the Dunces weep. VOL. II. M P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that Stinks and Stings; j¿ Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, - Yet wit ne'er taStes, and beauty ne'er cnjsy.;- - ¿... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 398 Seiten
...Why write at all ?—A. Yes, filence if you keep, The Town, the Court, the Wits, the Dunces -wwj, P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that ftinks and llings ; 310 Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty... | |
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