 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.  Specimens of the British Poets ... - Seite 821809 - 459 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Pope - 1735 - 246 Seiten
...the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred fpaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal (miles his emptinefs betray, 31 r As fhiilow ftreams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence... | |
 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745 - 432 Seiten
...and ftings, Whofe Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys, Yet Wit ne'er taftes, nor Beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred Spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the Game they dare not bite. Eternal Smiles his Emptinefs betray, As {hallow Streams run dimpling all the Way. Whether in florid Impotence he fpeaks,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 288 Seiten
...the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred fpaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal fmiles his emptinefs betray, 315 As (hallow ftreams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 370 Seiten
...witty and the fair annoys, 311 Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred fpaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal fmiles his emptinefs betray, 315 As mallow ftreams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 Seiten
...witty and the fair annoys, 3 1 1 Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred fpaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal fmiles his emptinefs betray, 315 As mallow ftreams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence... | |
 | 1764 - 198 Seiten
...the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er ta'fles, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well bred fpaniels civilly delight, In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal fmiles his emptinefs betray, As fhallow iu earns run dimpling all the way. f I have inserted the moftftriking... | |
 | Robert Lowth (bp. of London.) - 1775 - 442 Seiten
...generally /peaking, is the confequence." . * repentance ; or by the Participle, by preaching repentance. " So well-bred Spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game, they dare not bite." Pope, Epift. to АгЬиЛпоЦ: " By continual mortifying our corrupt affections.'* Collect, Eafter-Eve.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 414 Seiten
...the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred fpaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal finiles his emptinefs betray, 31S As fhallow ftreams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 516 Seiten
...all the way. Whether in florid impotence he fpeaks, And as the prompter breathes the puppet fqueaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad *, Half froth, half venom, fpits himfelf abroad. In puns, or politics, or tales, or lyes, Or fpite, or fmut, or rhymes, or blafphemies.—... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 Seiten
...the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred fpaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal fmiles his emptinefs betray, As mallow ftreams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence... | |
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