 Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. 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 either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart,...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Strona 249autor: Joseph Warton - 1806Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1847 - Liczba stron: 426
...incomparable, but too bitter description of Sporus : — " Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express'd : A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust."* Upon the Duke of Grafton,... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - Liczba stron: 440
...between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. VOL. I, 4 Eve's tempter thus the rabbins... | |
 | 1848 - Liczba stron: 636
...between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling...head or the corrupted heart — Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord ! Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - Liczba stron: 602
...between that and this, Now high now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing! that, acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart — Pop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord ! Eve's tempter... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - Liczba stron: 642
...either part. The trifling head, or the corrupted heart , Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the hoard. Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rahhins have express'd, A cheruh's face, and reptile all the rest : Beauty that shocks you, parts that... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - Liczba stron: 606
...the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face — a reptile all the rest ! Beauty that shocks you, parts that none can trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust !" Though the substance... | |
 | G. Douglas Atkins - 1985 - Liczba stron: 172
...between that and this, Now high, now low, now Master up, now Miss, And he himself one vile Antithesis. Amphibious Thing! that acting either Part, The trifling...the Board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord. Eve 's Tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest, A Cherub's face, a Reptile all the rest; Beauty that... | |
 | Linda Dowling - 1994 - Liczba stron: 196
...Princeton, Neu> jersey Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford HAPTER ON AESTHETE AND EFFEMIN ATUS Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. — Alexander Pope, Epistle to Arbudmot,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - Liczba stron: 764
...the grand innocence of civility, and so to re-create in society the first sin of the first garden. Eve's Tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest, A Cherub's Face, a Reptile all the rest. . . . There is perhaps no more powerful an instance of Pope's familiarizing an ancient myth than in... | |
 | Christopher Breward - 1995 - Liczba stron: 270
...Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings . . . Fop at the Toilet, Flatt'rer at the Board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord.39 Metropolitan mollies, located in a social milieu far broader than that of Hervey's, adopted... | |
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