| English poetry - 1840 - 372 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...milk ) Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1840 - 446 pages
...those in. vcctives which are alike celebrated for their power and their malice. " 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? ****** Amphibious... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremble — ed store, Or wanders, Heaven-directed, to the poor. Some wandering touc Î Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ! Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel Î P. Yet let me flap... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 366 pages
...poets, of the same power and the same variety — where will you find them ? (1) [" Let Sporus tremble A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 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, $e.] Meaning the man who would have persuaded... | |
| John Hervey Baron Hervey - Great Britain - 1848 - 440 pages
...history 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 or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child... | |
| American periodicals - 1848 - 636 pages
...fopperies." But let us now look at Pope's portrait with our editor's framing : — " P. LetSporus tremble — A. What ! that thing of silk? Sporus! that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas 1 can Sporus feel ? Who_ brea"ks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded... | |
| 1848 - 738 pages
...brilliant and popular sallies of min»Hed invective and sarcasm ever published. P. Let Sporus tremble — A. What ! that thing of silk ? Sporus ! that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, aias, can Sporus feel, Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremble h — A. What 1 that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of...milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child... | |
| Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...satires, (epistle to Arbuthnot) — P. Let Sporus tremble — A. What ! thnt thing of Bilk ? Sporns ! that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense alas! can Sporus feel 7 Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? F. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted... | |
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