 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...  The Living Age ... - Seite 3421848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 526 Seiten
...; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, 31 1 Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of...prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Km, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, 320 In puns, or politics, or tales,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812
...; 310 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...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
 | 1816
...miltrefs. Shak. K. Lear. He with mumbled prayers atones the deity. Drjden's juv. i. To mouth gently. — Spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Pope. 3. To flubberover; tofupprefs; to utter imperfectly. — The raifing of my rabble is an exploit... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 807 Seiten
...stings ; Whose buzz the witty and tlie fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So 'Tis i Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, { As sliallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822
...stings; 310 Whose buz 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...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
 | William Frederick Deacon - 1823 - 429 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
...stings ; 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...prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks : Or at the car of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824
...stings ; 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...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way; Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824
...stings ; 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...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way; Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
 | British anthology - 1825
...stings ; 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...speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squf Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or... | |
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