 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 pages
...mine no 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 ? 306 Ver. 299. Who to the Dean, and silver bell, &c.] Meaning the man who would have persuaded the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 452 pages
...mine no 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 ? 306 NOTES. Ver. 299. Who to the Dean, and silver bell, &c.] Meaning the man who would have persuaded... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pages
...mine no 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 ? 306 NOTES. Ver. 299. Who to the Dean, and silver bell, &c.] Meaning the man who would have persuaded... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1822 - 312 pages
...indifference of selfism for great sympathies, of this volatile and heartless man of literature and rank ! - That thing of silk, Sporus that mere white curd of ass's milk !" The confidential confession of RACINE to his son is remarkable : " Do not think that I am sought... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporns tremble — ture, when she saw the blow, A*tonish'd, gave a dreadful shriek ; And mother Tellu» breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 474 pages
...mine no 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 of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel, Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet let me flap this bug... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. LetSporus tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? NOTES. Whose modest manners virtue's self approves, Whom wisdom leads through learning's inmost groves,... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...mine no 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 asses' milk? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...mine no 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 asses' milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel, Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? Whose... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...dread But all such babbling blockheads in his stead Let Sporus tremble — .A. What ? that thin^of silk Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas! can Spores feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This... | |
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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. 
