 | 1848 - 638 דפים
...us now look at Pope's portrait with our editor's framing : — " P. Let Sporus tremble— A. What ! that thing of silk? Sporus ! that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas I can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 דפים
...honest man shall* dread, But all such babbling blockheads .in his stead. Let Sporus tremble— A. What 1 that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire of sense, alas ! can tSporus-feel 1 Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel 1 P. Yet let me flap... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 דפים
...honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus* tremble — A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel 1 Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1868 - 620 דפים
...nothing so charming* as writers, and to be one : he will know better one of them days." Gray and Burke ! What mighty men must be submitted to the petrifying...literature and rank ! That thing of silk, Sporus, thai mere white curd of ass's milk ! The confidential confession of Racine to his son is remarkable... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1870 - 454 דפים
...Sporus of Pope, and husband of the beautiful Molly Lepell. " P. Let Sporus tremble — " A. What ! that thing of silk, Sporus ! that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? " Augustus, third... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 דפים
...honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremble — A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet let me flap... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 דפים
...honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus1 tremble A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 168 דפים
...•man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremble — A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet let me flap... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 510 דפים
...had this epigram in his thoughts when he wrote his Epistle to Arbuthnot : " Let Sporus tremble. What, that thing of silk ! Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk." XVI. To BRAINHARDY. ) ARDY, thy brain is valiant, 'tis confest, Thou more; that with it every day dar'st... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 510 דפים
...had this epigram in his thoughts when he wrote his Epistle to Arbuthnot : " Let Sporus tremble. What, that thing of silk ! Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk." XVI. To BRAINHARDY. ^ARDY, thy brain is valiant, 'tis confest, Thou more; that with it every day dar'st... | |
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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... 
