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 344 1848 Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
...stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: 10 d large garden have; And a few friends, and many books, both true. Both wise, and 11 His wit all see-saw, between that and this. Now high, now low, now Master up, now Miss, And he himself...