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
 | 1851 - 79 Seiten
...pen turns them to shapes, And gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Shakespeare. 12. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Pope. 17 . How blest the Farmer's simple life, How pure the joy it yields ! Far from the world's tempestuous... | |
 | 1852
...ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight n mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Sternal ialf froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, n puns, or polities, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 733 Seiten
...many beams twisted themselves, Upon whose golden thread the angels walk To and from heaven. Shirley. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Pope, On parent knees, a naked, new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all around thee smiled;... | |
 | James Hannay - 1854 - 276 Seiten
...stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : i So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of...puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad." It concludes : " Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have... | |
 | James Hannay - 1854 - 276 Seiten
...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...puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad." It concludes : " Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have... | |
 | James Hannay - 1854 - 276 Seiten
...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 ear of Eye, familiar toad, Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad." It concludes : " Eve's tempter thus... | |
 | Richard Lalor Sheil - 1854
...comes down to us, as the Sporus of Pope's severe Satire, in which his character is thus limned: — " Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams...And, as the Prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks. Eve's tempter, thus the Rabbins have exprest — A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854
...; 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854
...stings; 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... | |
 | James Hannay - 1855 - 235 Seiten
...stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Ye wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of...betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. * " Language cannot afford more glowing or more forcible terms to express the utmost bitterness of... | |
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