 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1851 - 370 pages
...thought, and lame in expression. Hobhouse, in his Radical days, applied the last couplet to Canning — " Beauty that shocks you, parts that none can trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." In sentences thus balanced, it is naturally to be expected that... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...corrupted heart, fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. illiam will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust, Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's... | |
 | Richard Lalor Sheil - Ireland - 1854 - 408 pages
...comes down to us, as the Sporus of Pope's severe Satire, in which his character is thus limned: — " Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams...shocks you, parts that none can trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." In June, 1826, the Earldom of BrUtol was raised into a Marquisato.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express'd, 330 A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's... | |
 | James Hannay - Satire - 1854 - 316 pages
...half-venom, spits himself abroad." It concludes : " Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed, — A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." This Satire, or libel if you like,... | |
 | James Hannay - Satire - 1854 - 292 pages
...half-venom, spits himself abroad." It concludes : " Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed, — A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." This Satire, or libel if you like,... | |
 | C. Richard - Saints - 1854 - 1002 pages
...puppet squeaks. Eve's tempter, thus thé Rabbins hâve exprest — A cherub's face, a reptile ail thé rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none can trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks thé dust." In Juiie, 1826, tho Earldom of Bristol was raised into a Marquisato.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Kensington (Eng.) - 1855 - 348 pages
...the board, Now trips, a lady ; and now struts, a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." Lord Hervey, assisted by Lady Mary... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...the buard, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have expressed, \ cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper nor fashion's... | |
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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. 
