 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 472 pages
...unexampled and unremitted diligence in literary purfuits, who added credit to this very hiftory, as P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that (links and flings ; 310 Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 592 pages
...few specimens from the famous ' character of ' Sporus,' to which Lord Byron here refers : — ' Yes, let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings : Whose buz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...— A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus ! that mere white curd of asses' milk ? 306 Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ! Who breaks a butterfly upon...with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 310 Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...tliat thing o Ink? Sfirvi, that mere white curd of afs's milk ? Satire or f'enfe, alas! can Sforut feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet...with gilded wings This painted child of dirt, that ilinks and ftings Whole buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tiftcs, and beauty ne'«r... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 504 pages
...of Sporus ; it feems a more fuitable name. There is, I believe, no account why it wat altered. E 4 P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that ftinks and ftings ;310 Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er enjoys... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 pages
...of Sporus ; it feems a more fuitable name. There is, I believe, no account why it wai altered. E 4 P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that {links and flings ; 310 Whole buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...of Sporus ; it feems a more fuitable name. There is, I believe, no account why it wa» altered. « 4 P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that (links and flings 5319 Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? ,:s.'j Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? > .. 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 ne'er tastes, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...— A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus! that mere white curd of asses' milk? S06 Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel! Who breaks a butterfly upon...with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; 310 Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes. and heauty ne'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...of asses' milk 'i Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel t Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? /'. 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 aunoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er... | |
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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.... 
