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" ... 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. "
Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole: Earl of Orford - Page 40
by William Coxe - 1816
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Parriana: Or, Notices of the Rev. Samuel Parr ...

Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 pages
...trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus, the Rabbins have exprest, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. V. 305. " Language caunot afford more glowing or more forcible terms to express the utmost bitterness...
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Parriana: Miscellaneous materials bearing on Parr's controversies

Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 794 pages
...thus, the Rabbins have erprest, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you, part* that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. V. 305. " Language caunot afford more glowing or more forcible terms to express the utmost bitterness...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have expressed : A cherub's face, Famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray, (8) Lance duet. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool ; Not lucre's madman, nor ambition's tool : Not...
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Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 2

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poets, English - 1831 - 576 pages
...20. A cherub's face. 21. A reptile all the rest. 22. The Rabbins. 23. Pride that licks the diw<— ' Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dusts " Now, is there a line of all the passage without the mostybra'6/e imagery (for his purpose)...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, and reptile all the rest: Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, I Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's foolv...
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The works of Thomas Moore, Volume 17

Thomas Moore - 1832 - 592 pages
...20. A cherub's face. 21. A reptile all the rest. 22. The Rabbins. 23. Pride that /icis f/ie dust — Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust;...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. • « Now, is there a line of all the passage without the most forcible imagery (for his purpose)?...
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A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of ..., Volume 1

John Burke - Baronetage - 1832 - 712 pages
...Prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks. Eve's tempter, thus the Rabbins have exprest A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. Beauty, that shocks you, parts that none can trust. Wit, that can curse, and pride that licks the dust." By Middleton in his dedication of the...
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Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 15

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...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...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." Prol. to Sat.] that Johnson has said, after some hesitation, that he could not " prevail upon himself...
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Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 5

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 400 pages
...20. A cherub's face. 21. A repiue all the rest. 22. The Rabbins. 23. Pride that ticks the dust. " ' Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.' " Now, is there a line of all the passage without the most forcible imagery (for his purpose) ? Look...
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Letters and journals [&c.].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1833 - 678 pages
...20. A cherub's face. 21. A reptile all the rest. 22. The Rabbins. 23. Pride that lichs the dust. ' Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.' ' Now, is there a line of all the passage without the ' most forcible imagery (for his purpose)? Look...
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