 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - Great Britain - 1848 - 606 pages
...Sternal 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 ; Or at ///• • ear of EVE, familiar toad ! Half froth half venom spits himself abroad, In pun or politics,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes,...himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...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...! Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In pun or politics, or tales or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all see-saw... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes, the puppet sq'.ieaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half...himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, 01 rhymes, or blasphemies : His wit all see-eawr, between that and this. Now... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1851 - 370 pages
...extraordinary merit. Where shall we find more meaning, more keenly expressed, than in the lines — " Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad 1 " Though, perhaps, it would have been still better if the allusion had been to a fact in nature or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 628 pages
...all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter hreathes, the puppet squcaki Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself ahroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or hlasphemies : His... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...Sternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid * ialf froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, n puns, or polities, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes,...! * Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, 320 In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.39 His wit... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes,...puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad! & Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, 320 In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite,... | |
 | James Hannay - Satire - 1854 - 292 pages
...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. • Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes...puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad." It concludes : " Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have... | |
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As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad... 
