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Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole: Earl of Orford - Page 40
by William Coxe - 1816
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 320 pages
...and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphihious thing ! that, acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart ; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the hoard, Sow trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rahbins have...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile Antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that, acting either part, The trifling...head ! or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus, the Rabbins have...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now mi---, And he himself ope vile Antitheses. Amphibious thing ! that, acting either part, .•;...or the corrupted heart ! . • Fop at the toilet, flatterer, at the board,' . Now trips a' lady, and now struts a lord. . . • Eve's tempter thus,'...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 7

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1839 - 584 pages
...Vice-Chamberlain, contained in the prologue to his Satires. We will quote only the concluding lines : — " Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabins have...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...between thai and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have...
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The History of England, Volume 10

Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1840 - 446 pages
...of asses' milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? ****** Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that, acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...between that and this. Now high, now low, now master up, now mue, 4nd he himself one vile Antithesis. May every Bavius have his Bufo etill ! So 'n|> at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Sow trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter...
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Memoirs of the court of England from ... 1688 to the death of ..., Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 pages
...between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling...head, or the corrupted heart ; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady and now struts a lord. VOL. II. 2 B Eve's tempter thus the...
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Memoirs of the Court of England: From the Revolution in 1688 to ..., Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 470 pages
...between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling...head, or the corrupted heart ; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady and now struts a lord. VOL. II. 2 B Eve's tempter thus the...
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