 Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and 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 the game they...  With the Wits: Shelburne Essays, Tenth Series - Seite 181von Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 311 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Ogilvie - 1769 - 342 Seiten
...paflage in the moft correS Englijh Poet that ever wrote. — Let me (fays Pope, fpeaking of Iporus) — Flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that ftinks and flings ; Whofe bux. the witty and the fair annoys, Yet tuit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Eschenburg - 1788 - 472 Seiten
...millsî Sathre or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? ?OPE Yet let roe flap this bug with gilded wings This painted child of dirt, that ftinks and flings; Whofe bu7z the witty and the fair annoys. \ec wit ne'e* taileSj and Beauty де'ег... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 Seiten
...Let Sporus tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus! that mere white curd of asses' milk? 306 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks...This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 310 Whose bu22 the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred... | |
 | 1842 - 592 Seiten
...few specimens from the famous ' character of ' Sporus,' to which Lord Byron here refers : — ' Yes, let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This 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. Eternal smiles... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 Seiten
...Sporus tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus ! that mere white curd of asses' milk ? 306 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ! Who breaks...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 well-bred... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 Seiten
...curd of ass's milk ! Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel f "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ue'er enjoys ; So * Lord... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 Seiten
...Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? ,:s.'j Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? > .. Yet-let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; • • - ' Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 Seiten
...Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Yet let me flap this Dug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys ; So . * Lord... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 Seiten
...Let Sporus tremble — A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus! that mere white curd of asses' milk? S06 Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel! Who breaks...This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; 310 Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes. and heauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 Seiten
...or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who hreaks a hutterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap thU hug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings'; Whose huas the witty and the (air annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and heauty ne'er enjoys : So well-hred... | |
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