 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...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...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's fool, Not Lucre's madman, nor Ambition's tool, 335 Not proud,... | |
 | James Hannay - Satire - 1854 - 316 pages
...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...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." This Satire, or libel if you like, has every merit which such a work can have: brilliance, epigram,... | |
 | Richard Lalor Sheil - Ireland - 1854 - 394 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 creep, and pride that licks the dust." In June, 1826, the Earldom of Bristol... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Kensington (Eng.) - 1855 - 348 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." Lord Hervey, assisted by Lady Mary Wortley Montague, with whom Pope had quarrelled, endeavoured to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1855 - 584 pages
...20. A cherub's face. 21. A reptile all the rest. 22. The Rabbins. 23. Pride that licks 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 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. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool, Not lucre's madman, nor ambition's tool, Not proud nor... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Bce's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, ercep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool, Not luere's madman,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1909 - 872 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...Wit that can creep and pride that licks the dust. What could be more daring or more successful than this antithetical representation of ' Sporus ' as... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1874 - 588 pages
...thus the Rabbins have expressed, A cherub face, and reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks yon, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that bites the dust." There's writing for you ! and, let us add, there is poetry. The artificial is never... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1878 - 592 pages
...trips a lady, and now struts a lord, Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed, A cherub's face — a reptile all the rest ! Beauty that shocks you, parts that none can trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust !" Cruel and unjust as is the satire,... | |
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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. 
