 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 Edinburgh Review - Page 1671842Full view - About this book
 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745 - 426 pages
...Afs's Milk ? " Satire or Senfe alas ! can Sftrrus feel ? " Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Whe«! .?M Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded Wings, This painted Child of Dirt, that ftinks and ftings, Whoie Buzz tlie Witty and the Fair annoys, Yet Wit ne'er taftes, .nor peauty n^er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 288 pages
...Afs's milk ? 306 Satire or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...Afs's milk ? 306 Satire or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that ftinks and flings ; 310 Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tafles, and beauty... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...again, to the fame purpofe, in the Epijile to Dr. Arbuthnot^ Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of Dirt, \hatjlinks undoings. Thefe, it is objected, are Infe&s not of Nature's creating, but the Poet's, and... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1769 - 342 pages
...paflage in the moft correS Englijh Poet that ever wrote. — Let me (fays Pope, fpeaking of Iporus) — Flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that ftinks and flings ; Whofe bux. the witty and the fair annoys, Yet tuit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...Afs's milk : S-'.tire or fenfe, alas ! can Sforus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that ftinks and ftingsf Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 pages
...On themes like thefe, fuperior far to thine, Let lanrel'd Gibber and great Arnal mine. Why TP. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that ftinks and ftings ; 3 70 Whofe bu22 the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...dread, But all fuch babbling blockheads in his {lead. IBID. p. I9I. CONTEMPTIBLE INSIGNIFICANCE. YET let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that ftinks and flings ; Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...the Epiftle on Jfafte* See Mr. Pope's Letter to the Earl of Burlington concerning this matter. 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... | |
 | Eschenburg - 1788 - 472 pages
...millsî Sathre or fenfe, alas ! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? ?OPE Yet let roe flap this bug with gilded wings This painted child of dirt, that ftinks and flings; Whofe bu7z the witty and the fair annoys. \ec wit ne'e* taileSj and Beauty äå'åã... | |
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