 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...  Littell's Living Age - Seite 3441848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1841 - 324 Seiten
...His great rule of action, the acmé of his wisdom, is to scratch all those who will scratch him, — Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling 'all the way, When in foolish impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks. This ponderous... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1873 - 566 Seiten
...235 son that the book was the Dean's, it was. How amused your brother there seems to be ! Vanessa. " .Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way." Cademis. I suppose that 's the solution, though he is your brother, for he has certainly got a very... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 Seiten
...not bite. Sternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling nil the way. Vhether wn quickening power, when fatal course Had circled his full orb, the birth mature Of this our native lalf froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, n puns, or polities, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...not bite. Sternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow slrecms run dimpling all the way. iVhether in florid impotence he speaks, And. as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or al the ear of Eve, familiar toad, rlalf froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, ;i puns, or politics,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 Seiten
...; 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... | |
 | 1847 - 540 Seiten
...Retaliation. 9. Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he. 10. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. POPE. 1 1 . Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides. MILTON. 12. '... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 602 Seiten
...silk t Sporus ! that mere white curd of ass's milk 1 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sponis feel 1 Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap...in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter Dreathes the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eye, familiar toad ! Half froth, half venom, spits himself... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 606 Seiten
...enjoys ; As well-bred spaniels civilly delight ID mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Sternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run...as the prompter breathes the puppet squeaks ; Or at ///• • ear of EVE, familiar toad ! Half froth half venom spits himself abroad, In pun or politics,... | |
 | 1848 - 738 Seiten
...of dirt that stinks and stings ! Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes nor beauty ne'er enjoys ; As well-bred spaniels civilly...game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness bet/ay, Aa shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 Seiten
...stings : Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, anil beauty ne'er enjoys . So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his empttness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks,... | |
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