 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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,...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the wayi Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as thg prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...fair annoys. fet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoy* : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight n est be the great! for those they take away, And those they left me ; for they As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Yhether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - 580 pages
...flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings : .1 Whose buz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys. . Eternal smiles his emptinesss betray," As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Eve's tempter... | |
 | Arts - 1842 - 586 pages
...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 enjoys. Eternal smiles his emptinesss betray," As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Eve's tempter thus... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 482 pages
...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,...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 476 pages
...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,...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...This painted child of dirt, llial stink* and Mings ; Vhose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, I et myriad dew-drops twinkle round. Ah, see, where robb'd, and murder'd, in that pit n mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Sternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow slrecms... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. rVhose buzz the witty nnd the fair annoys, 'et n mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Sternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - Great Britain - 1848 - 608 pages
...stings ! Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys; Yet wit ne'er tastes and beauty ne'er enjoys ; As well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter... | |
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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. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks,... 
