 Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad...  Poems - Seite 223von Charles James - 1808Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1842 - 592 Seiten
...and stings : Whose buz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 Seiten
...Epistle to Authors. So well-bred spaniels civilly. delight r , In mumbling of the game they cannot bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether injlorid impotence he speaks. And as the prompter breathes the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 Seiten
...beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight Tn mumbling of the game they dare not hite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 Seiten
...butterfly upon a wheel ? 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. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the... | |
 | 1809 - 402 Seiten
...enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Kterual smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid iinpottnce he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the... | |
 | William Coxe - 1816 - 464 Seiten
...let me flap this bug with gilded wings, " This painted child of dirt, that stinks and sings, &c. " Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, " As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. " Whether in florid impotence he speaks, " And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; " Or... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 Seiten
...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. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or at the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 Seiten
...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. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the... | |
 | William Frederick Deacon - 1823 - 494 Seiten
...sulphureous waves of Tartarus, will be in no hurry for a second warm-bath. CHARACTER »Tommcm-plarr " Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way."—POPE. THERE is a class of persons, indigenous to England, which appears to have escaped the... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 Seiten
...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. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks : Or at the... | |
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