 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 In mumbling of the game they...  Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot - Página 50por Alexander Pope - 1885 - 51 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 320 páginas
...But all such hahhling hlockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremhle — A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who hreaks a hutterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this hug with gilded wings, This painted child... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1846 - 476 páginas
...— ; " Let Sporus tremble I what ! that thing of silk ! Sporus, that mere white curd of asses milk 1 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings ; Whose... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 366 páginas
...same variety — where will you find them ? (1) [" Let Sporus tremble A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd Of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus t'eel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet let me flap this hug with gilded wings, This painted... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 440 páginas
...to be omitted even from this sketch : — P.- Let Sporus tremble — A. What ! that tiling of silk ? Sporus ! that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire...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... | |
 | Gilbert Highet - 1949 - 802 páginas
...spewed to make the batter.46 Mr. Pope is more refined, and actually makes his vulgarities melodious : Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings.*? However, all the 'classical' satirists of the baroque period avoided the oddities, the neologisms,... | |
 | W. M. Ormrod - 1990 - 156 páginas
...lme ziH of the Old English poem, which says (hat Beowulfs ship crosses the sea "most like a bird.' Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings. By displaying so forcefully and variously the ways in which the discipline of meter guides and shapes... | |
 | Rowland McMaster - 1991 - 220 páginas
...crawls, and stings and stinks' (p. 716), echoing Pope's fierce lines from the 'Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot': Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings. Characters frequently speak in unmarked passages of English verse, no doubt reflecting the nineteenth-century... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OxBoLi; PoE; PoEL-3; SeCePo 9 Let Sporus tremble — 'What? That thing of silk, the bombast way, Nor the dry chips of short-lunged...things to obtrude And force some odd similitude. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; Whose... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 páginas
...his admired friends, now from his detested enemies: Let Sporus tremble — "What? that Thing of silk, "Sporus, that mere white Curd of Ass's milk? "Satire...Sporus feel? "Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?" Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings, This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings. . .... | |
 | Christopher Breward - 1995 - 270 páginas
...tremble - what? That thing of silk, EIGHTEENTH Sporus, that mere white curd of asses milk? CENTURY Satire or sense alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings . . .... | |
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