 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...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Pàgina 164per Alexander Pope - 1891Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pàgines
...these volumes, p. xcii. 8 To keep off epilepsy, Lord Hervey lived on ass's milk and biscuits. "Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er...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... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1878 - 592 pàgines
..."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 ; As well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 pàgines
...let me flap this bug with gilded wingB, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and sting* : Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoyg : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 858 pàgines
...a rueful twinge of muscle, as though it were his unkind fate to cook beef, but not to cat it. " As well-bred spaniels civilly delight ^ In mumbling of the game they dare not bite." In the right-hand corner crouches a cadaverous wretch in tartan jacket and trews, whom Hogarth himself... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pàgines
...these volumes, p. xcii. 8 To keep off epilepsy, Lord Hervey lived on ass's milk and biscuits. Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er...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... | |
 | 1848 - 638 pàgines
...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 ; As well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - 1866 - 340 pàgines
...with a rueful twinge of muscle, as though it were his unkind fate to cook beef, but not to eat it. As well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. In the right-hand corner crouches a cadaverous wretch in tartan jacket and trews, whom Hogarth himself... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pàgines
...me flap this bug with gilded winga, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whosejbuzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes,...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 pàgines
...This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys ; 311 Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So...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... | |
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