 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pàgines
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have exprest, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...proud nor servile ; be one poet's praise, That if he pleas'd, he pleas'd by manly ways ; That flattery, even to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 pàgines
...struts a lord. Bce's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, . If to review his country be his fate, Be it through toils and ercep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool, Not luere's madman,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pàgines
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...pleased, he pleased by manly ways : That flattery, even to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie in verse or prose the same : That not in fancy's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 pàgines
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, and reptile all the rest. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...Wit that can creep and pride that licks the dust. What could be more daring or more successful than this antithetical representation of ' Sporus ' as... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 pàgines
...thus the Rabbins have expressed, A cherub face, and reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks yon, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that bites the dust." There's writing for you ! and, let us add, there is poetry. The artificial is never... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pàgines
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have exprest, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...proud nor servile ; be one poet's praise, That if he plea-s'd, he pleas'd by manly ways ; That flattery, even to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pàgines
...of wit With the same spirit that its author writ. POPE. — On Criticism, Part II. Line 288. Beanty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. POPE. — Prologue to Sat. Line 882. In wit a man, simplicity a child. POPE — Gay's Epitaph. It is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pàgines
...lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Eeauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that...pleased, he pleased by manly ways: That flattery, even to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie in verse or prose the same: That not in fancy's maze... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 pàgines
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...pleased, he pleased by manly ways: That flattery, even to kings, he held a shame, And thought a lie in verse or prose the same : That not in fancy's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pàgines
...a Lord. jEve's tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest, 330 A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust;...fashion's fool, Not Lucre's madman, nor Ambition's tool, 335 Not proud, nor servile; — be one Poet's praise,. That, if he pleas'd, he pleas'd by manly ways:... | |
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A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust; Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. 
