 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1883 - 446 pages
...Pope, who has gibbeted him as " Lord Fanny " and Sporus, in well-known lines : P. 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 1 P. Yet... | |
 | Robert Edward Myhill Peach - Bath (England) - 1883 - 206 pages
...displeasure, who thus satirises him under the name of Sporus in his Epistle to Arbullinol— "What I that thing of silk? Sporus ! That mere white curd of ass's milk." The Hervcys were a race possessed of singular and, in the case of the nobleman here mentioned, of rare... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - Great Britain - 1885 - 424 pages
...flashes, but it is the iridescence of putrefaction, not of healthy vitality. P. Let Sporus tremble A. What ! that thing of silk ? Sporus ! that mere white curd of asses' milk P Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel r Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - Great Britain - 1885 - 392 pages
...flashes, but it is the iridescence of putrefaction, not of healthy vitality. P. Let Sporus tremble A. What! that thing of silk ? Sporus ! that mere white curd of asses' milk ? Satire or sienee, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1889 - 634 pages
...shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremble — A. What? that thins 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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1889 - 462 pages
...Bufo-Halifax and on Spo^us^Harvey. The last of these shall be here selected : "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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Anthologies - 1890 - 448 pages
...such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Spores tremble — A. What, that thing of silk ? Spores, 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,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 462 pages
...Bufo-Halifax and on Sporus-Harvey. The last of these shall be here selected : ' ' 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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1891 - 440 pages
...Bufo-Halifax and on Sporus-Harvey. The last of these shall be here selected : "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 - 1885 - 72 pages
...all such babbling blockheads in his stead, Iiet Sporus tremble— A. What? that thing of silk, 305 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... | |
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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. 
