 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 דפים
...Hervey himself he struck with terrible precision at the weak points : 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? P. Yet let me flap this... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 336 דפים
...Hervey himself he struck with terrible precision at the weak points: 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? P. Yet let me flap this... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1919 - 342 דפים
...Hervey himself he struck with terrible precision at the weak points : 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? P. Yet let me flap this... | |
 | Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 דפים
...shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus 2 tremble — Arbuthnot. 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? Pope. Yet let me flap... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1923 - 528 דפים
...Satires which holds up to ridicule Lord Hervey under the name of "Sporus": Let Sporus tremble — 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? Yet let me flap this bug... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1924 - 356 דפים
...drawing Hervey 's portrait, and left him scarred for all times : " 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 on the wheel ? " P. Yet let me flap... | |
 | Lytton Strachey - 1925 - 48 דפים
...Pope "seems to be actually screaming -with malignant fury." It is true. Let Sporus tremble ! — 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? — Yet let me flap this... | |
 | Lytton Strachey - 1925 - 52 דפים
...(30) "seems to be actually screaming with malignant fury/' It is true. Let Sporus tremble ! — 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? — Yet let me flap this... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 דפים
...mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his Let Sporus* tremble—A. What? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet let me flap this... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 דפים
...AWP; InPK; InPS; NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OxBoLi; PoE; PoEL-3; SeCePo 9 Let Sporus tremble — 'What? a tall met'phor in the bombast way, Nor the dry chips of short Satire or sense, alas, can Sporus feel. Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?' Yet let me flap this... | |
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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... 
