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...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...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...

...civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether...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,...

...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...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...

...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...prompter breathes the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eye, familiar toad, Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad." It concludes : " Eve's tempter thus...

...Pope's severe Satire, in which his character is thus limned:— " Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way; Whether...And, as the Prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks. Eve's tempter, thus the Rabbins have exprest — A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that...

...the utmost bitterness of contempt. We think we are here reading Milton against Salmasius." WARTON. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the...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...