Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and 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.... The Living Age ... - Seite 3421848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745
...of Afs's Milk ? " Satire or Senfe alas ! can Spams feel ? " Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel ?" Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded Wings, This painted Child of Dirt, that (links and ftings, Whofe Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys, Yet Wit ne'er taftes, nor Beauty ne'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751
...filk, Spar us, that mere white curd of Afs's milk ? 306 Satire or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap...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 taftes, and beauty... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751
...filk, Sporus, that mere white curd of Afs's milk ? 306 Satire or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap...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 tafles, and beauty... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751
...filk, Sporus, that mere white curd of Afs's milk ? 306 Satire or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap...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 tafles, and beauty... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752
...again, to the fame purpofe, in the Epijile to Dr. Arbuthnot^ Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? Yet let me flap this 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
...filk, Sporus, that mere white curd of Afs's milk ? 306 Satire or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap...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
...filk, 305 Sporus, that mere white curd of Afs's milk ? Satire or Senfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap...with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that flinks and flings ; Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, 3 1 1 Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1769 - 172 Seiten
...paflage in the moft correS Englijh 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 flings ; Whofe bux. the witty and the fair annoys, Yet tuit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 195 Seiten
...filk, Spnrus, that mere white curd of Afs's milk : S-'.tire or fenfe, alas ! can Sforus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap...with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that ftinks and ftingsf Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778
...(ilk, 30$ Sporus, that mere white curd of afs's milk ? Satire or fenfe, ala.s ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug wjth gilded .wings, This painted child of dirt, that flinks and flings ; 310 Whofe buzz the witty and... | |
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