 | James Hannay - 1854 - 296 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes...puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad." It concludes : " Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have... | |
 | James Hannay - 1854 - 316 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eye, familiar toad, Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad." It concludes : " Eve's tempter thus... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 342 pages
...just. Pope calls Hervey an insect, annoying the witty and the fair with his buzz; a reptile, who " At the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad " in lying, tale-bearing, and spite (Eve is l 2 Queen Caroline); an effeminate, " amphibious thing," " That,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes,...himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies : His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes,...puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad ! Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad, 320 In puns or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes,...puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad ! Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad, /' 320 In puns or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes,...himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies ; His wit all see-saw between that and this, Now... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid with the well-known seats ; And to Ercctheus' sacred...stops, and anxious with his soul debates, Fix'd in ar. polities, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all sce-saw, betwcen... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1874 - 588 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes,...himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies ; His wit all see-saw between that and this, Now... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes,...himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies ; His wit all see-saw between that and this, Xow... | |
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As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad... 
