 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 páginas
...his detested enemies: Let Sporus tremble — "What? that Thing of silk, "Sporus, that mere white Curd of Ass's milk? "Satire or Sense alas! can Sporus feel? "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. . .... | |
 | Christopher Breward - 1995 - 270 páginas
...tremble - what? That thing of silk, EIGHTEENTH Sporus, that mere white curd of asses milk? CENTURY Satire or sense alas! Can Sporus feel? 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 . . .... | |
 | William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster - 1996 - 362 páginas
..."Sporus" in the Epistle: "Let Sporus tremble — What, that Thing of silk, / Sporus, that mere white Curd of Ass's milk? / Satire or Sense alas! can Sporus feel? / Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?" (lines 305-308). 55 "there are . . . hear.": This is a loose rendering of a passage from "Conference... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1996 - 854 páginas
...(p. 634) hreaking mere houseflies upon the wheel Cf. Pope, 'Episde to Dr Arbuthnot' (1735), 307-8: 'Satire or Sense, alas! can Sporus feel?/ Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?' 313 (p. 635) harharic Power probably Russia, but possibly Turkey. See Notes I if. .ind 369. 314 (p.... | |
 | Ian McCormick - 1997 - 276 páginas
...(1992:146-58). Let Sporus tremble - "What? that thing Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's of silk, milk? Satire or sense alas! can Sporus feel? 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... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...8856 'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot' Who breaks a butterBy upon a wheel? 8857 'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot' 8858 'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot' Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 páginas
...blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremble—'What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? 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; 310... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 1998 - 362 páginas
...(representing the hated Lord Hervey), Arbuthnot tries to inject a note of moderation, or, at least, reason: "Satire or Sense alas! can Sporus feel? / Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?" (lines 307-08). Pope takes the point with the marker, "Yet," but his subsequent rant reveals satire... | |
 | Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 páginas
...tell the truth. When Arbuthnot asks him why he chooses to attack Sporus, "Sporus, that mere white Curd of Ass's milk? "Satire or Sense alas! can Sporus feel? "Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?" 24. Ibid., IV, 192. 25. Brink, Horace on Poetry, p. 191. "that Thing of silk, (11.305-8) Pope's reply... | |
 | John Sitter - 2001 - 322 páginas
...the Horace figure of the opening lines is at odds with the aggressive glee of the attack on Hervey - "Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings" (lines 309-10) - as well as with the lofty tones of the satirist who "stoop'd to Truth, and moraliz'd... | |
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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. 
