 | 1849 - 820 Seiten
...at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord, Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed A cherub's face— a reptile all the rest ! Beauty that shocks you, parts that none can trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." There is no eecape from the effect of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 Seiten
...a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed, A cherub's face, and reptile all the rest : Beauty that shocks you, parts...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool. Not lucre's madman, nor ambition's tool, Not proud, nor... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 Seiten
...20. A cherub's face. 21: A reptile all the reit. 22. The Rabbins. 23. Pride that licks the iliut. " ' Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and prid¿ that licts the dust.' " Now, is there a line of all the passage ¡! without the most forcible... | |
 | 1852 - 874 Seiten
...toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins e Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's fool, Not Lucre's madman, nor Ambition's tool, Not proud, nor... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 Seiten
...board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express'd, 330 A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. Beauty that...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's fool, Not Lucre's madman, nor Ambition's tool, 335 Not proud,... | |
 | James Hannay - 1854 - 292 Seiten
...half-venom, spits himself abroad." It concludes : " Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed, — A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." This Satire, or libel if you like, has every merit which such a work can have : brilliance, epigram,... | |
 | James Hannay - 1854 - 316 Seiten
...half-venom, spits himself abroad." It concludes : " Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed, — A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." This Satire, or libel if you like, has every merit which such a work can have: brilliance, epigram,... | |
 | Richard Lalor Sheil - 1854 - 398 Seiten
...impotence he speaks, 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 shocks you, parts that none can trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." In June, 1826, the Earldom of Bristol... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 348 Seiten
...the board, Now trips, a lady ; and now struts, a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." Lord Hervey, assisted by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, with whom Pope had quarrelled, endeavoured to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1855 - 584 Seiten
...20. A cherub's face. 21. A reptile all the rest. 22. The Rabbins. 23. Pride that licks the dust— ' Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.' " Now, is there a line of all the passage without the most forcible imagery (for his purpose) * Look... | |
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Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart ; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. 
