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" Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. "
The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce - Page 8
by Alexander Pope - 1863
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Parriana: Miscellaneous materials bearing on Parr's controversies

Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 pages
...blow, Yet kt me flap thit bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So welt-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they cannot bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness...
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Parriana: Miscellaneous materials bearing on Parr's controversies

Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 794 pages
...blow, Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This paintcd child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit...spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they cannot bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow stream* run dimpling all the way. Whether...
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Parriana: Or, Notices of the Rev. Samuel Parr ...

Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 pages
...blow, Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This. painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit...enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbKng of the game they cannot bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling...
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Parriana: Miscellaneous materials bearing on Parr's controversies

Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 pages
...Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, 'I'll ix painted child of dirt, that stinks and sting* ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So wett-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they cannot bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 15

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...rabble is an exploit of consequence ; and not to be mumbled up in silence for all her perlness. Dryden. Spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Pope. The clown, the child of nature, without guile, Blest with an infant's ignorance of all But his...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 21

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...made a wit ; And that, for any thing in nature, Pigs might tqueak love-odes, dogs bark satire. Prior. In florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet aqueaks. Pope Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses the squeaking pigs of Homer. Id. Odyuiy. SQUEA'iMISH,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Yet let me flap this bus; with gilded wings, [ This painted child of dirt, that Ktinks and stinga : tions of Horace' seem to have been written as relaxations...facility; the plan was ready to his hand, and nothing was 1 Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. As shallow streams ran dimplins all the way. " ! Whether in...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that, stinKs and stings ; e fame thereof.' He began about the year 1647 to teach publicly in the vicinity gamo they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the...
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A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of ..., Volume 1

John Burke - Baronetage - 1832 - 712 pages
...nobleman fell under the lash of Pope, who in some extraordinarily severe lines, thus speaks of him, " Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams...And, as the Prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks. Eve's tempter, thus the Rabbins have exprest A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. Beauty, that...
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A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank].

James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...Cowper, — " Folly ever has a vacant stare, A simpering countenance, and a trifling air." And Pope, " Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way." A person of this kind is a tiresome companion. A laugh may be introduced occasionally, as a chorus...
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