 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....  Littell's Living Age - Seite 3441848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 476 Seiten
...curd of asses milk! Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted...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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 Seiten
...curd of asses milk ! Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 Seiten
...orthodoxy of Mr. Pope's principles ; but, like the old Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporns feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet let me flap...This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; 310 Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 366 Seiten
...of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd Of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus t'eel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet let me flap this hug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and sings; I tnerely mention one instance... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 606 Seiten
...wheel ? ' London ' had sneered at " Hervey's jest," which he afterwards changed to " Clodio's jest." P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This...ne'er enjoys ; As well-bred spaniels civilly delight ID mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Sternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams... | |
 | 1848 - 738 Seiten
...of silk ? Sporus ! that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, aias, can Sporus feel, Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap...the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes nor beauty ne'er enjoys ; As well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not... | |
 | Sébastien Louis Saulnier - 1848 - 944 Seiten
...painted child of dint thaï slinks and stings : Whose buzz thé witty and thé fair annoys, ïet wil ne'er tastes and beauty ne'er enjoys; As well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of thé game t'iey dare not bile. Eternal smiles bis emptiness betray, As shallow streams ruu dimpling... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 Seiten
...of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap...painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : i Sir William Young.... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 Seiten
...spewed to make the batter.46 Mr. Pope is more refined, and actually makes his vulgarities melodious : Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings.*? However, all the 'classical' satirists of the baroque period avoided the oddities, the neologisms,... | |
 | W. M. Ormrod - 1990 - 156 Seiten
...lme ziH of the Old English poem, which says (hat Beowulfs ship crosses the sea "most like a bird.' Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings. By displaying so forcefully and variously the ways in which the discipline of meter guides and shapes... | |
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