 Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis.  Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of ... - Page 194edited by - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Edward Wortley Montagu - 1870 - 544 pages
...puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve,* familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad. Amphibious thing that acting either part, The trifling...lady, and now struts a lord ; Eve's tempter* thus the Habbing have expressed, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest." Fielding repeated these terrible... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...wit all seesaw, between that and this. Now high, now low, now master up, now mise, And hi' himself n of prowess, Nor men of lordly race, For all Etruria's...On the earth the bloody corpses, In the path the exprest, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious tiling ! that, acting either part, The trifling head, or the...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express'd, sso A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, 1 ' Sporus : ' Lord Hervey. Beauty that shocks... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1872 - 168 pages
...wit all see- saw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting...trifling head, or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 pages
...wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting...trifling head, or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1873 - 590 pages
...and this, ") Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile Antithesis'. J 325 Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord. Evfs tempter thus the Rabbins have... | |
 | Linda Dowling - Foreign Language Study - 1994 - 196 pages
...Princeton, Neu> jersey Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford HAPTER ON AESTHETE AND EFFEMIN ATUS Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling...the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. — Alexander Pope, Epistle to Arbudmot, 1735 In the final week of April 1895 Oscar Wilde stood in... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 300 pages
...His Wit all see-saw between that and this, Now high, now low, now Master up, now Miss, And he himself one vile Antithesis. Amphibious Thing! that acting...trifling Head, or the corrupted Heart! Fop at the Toilet, Flatt'rer at the Board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord. Eve's Tempter thus the Rabbins have... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...His wit all seesaw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that acting...lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed, 330 A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit... | |
 | Jon Thomas Rowland - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 254 pages
...directly what it was about Hervey that bothered the lesser writers— his uncontainable "amphibiousness": Amphibious Thing! that acting either Part, The trifling Head, or the corrupted Heart! Fop at the Toilet, Flatt'rer at the Board, Now Trips a lady, and now struts a Lord. (Epistle toArbuthnot, lines 326-29)... | |
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