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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. "
The Witty and Humorous of the English Poets: With Specimens Arranged in Periods - Página 107
por William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 335 páginas
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Studies in Classic American Literature, Volumen2

D. H. Lawrence - 2003 - 724 páginas
...There may be a memory of the image of the insect in Pope's 'Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot' (1735), 11. 308-9: 'Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings - / This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings.' 49:37 These States. Strongly reminiscent of Whitman (see note on 148:2): cf. the titles 'France, The...
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English Literature and Ancient Languages

Kenneth Haynes - 2003 - 225 páginas
...vulgar terms like pox; Pope uses low Saxon monosyllables like bug, dirt, stink just as effectively: Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded Wings, This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; (Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 11. 310-11; 1734) Rochester and Swift break decorum, or break with decorum,...
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Our Greatest Writers: And Their Major Works

John Carrington - 2003 - 344 páginas
...attacks elsewhere on fools and charlatans in literature and public life are vigorously handled — "Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt, that stinks and sings" (Lord Hervey, in 'The Dunciad') - but the individual feuds have relatively little interest for...
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Alexander Pope and His Critics: An essay on the genius and writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 páginas
...of afs's milk ? Satire or fenfe, 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 {links and flings j Whofe buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er...
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The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire

Kirk Freudenburg - 2005 - 380 páginas
...Weinbrot (1982) 240-75. Le1 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; Whose...
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C. Wayne's $.02 Worth Volume #1

C. Wayne Owens - 2006 - 137 páginas
...development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly . " -Andre Gide "Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? " -Alexander Pope To break a butterfly, or even a beetle, upon a wheel is a delicate task." -EM Forster...
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