 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 Eve, familiar toad...  Poems - Seite 223von Charles James - 1808Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 470 Seiten
...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. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or, at the... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 Seiten
...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. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or, at 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 Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 440 Seiten
...beauty ne'er enjoys ; As 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. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes the puppet squeaks ; Or at the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 602 Seiten
...beauty ne'er enjoys ; As 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 : Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter Dreathes the puppet squeaks ; Or at the... | |
 | 1848 - 636 Seiten
...beauty ne'er enjoys ; As 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 : Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes the puppet squeaks ; Or at the... | |
 | 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 dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes the puppet squeaks ; Or at ///•... | |
 | 1849 - 820 Seiten
...beauty ne'er enjoys ; As 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. Whether in florid impotence he speaks And as the prompter breathes the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 Seiten
...afterwards Lord Melcombe. 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. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the... | |
 | 1851 - 84 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... | |
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