 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...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 will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." Prol. to Sat.] that Johnson has said,... | |
 | Woman - 1835 - 758 pages
...great enemy of our race had angelic features, and we read that a fairer person lost not heaven ; — " A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you ! " The liberality of nature in the person, is frequently attended with a deficiency of understanding.... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pages
...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 exprest, A cherub's...the rest. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pages
...flatterer, at the board,' . Now trips a' lady, and now struts a lord. . . • Eve's tempter thus,' {he Rabbins have exprest, A cherub's face, a reptile all the' rest. Beauty that shocks youx parts that none will trust, Not Fortune's, worshipper, nor Fashion's fool, Not Lucre's madman,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1839 - 584 pages
...toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabins have exprest, 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." Such also was the opinion of the Attorney-general,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1840 - 446 pages
...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 exprest, A cherub's...the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." Yet, notwithstanding his unfavourable... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...at the board, Sow trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have eipresi, or gave ; To keep ¡t in her power to damn and save : Scripture was scarce, and will trust. Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - 580 pages
...betray," As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have cxpress'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.' Surely, whether we agree with the noble crilic in his admiration... | |
 | 1842 - 586 pages
...betray," As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. 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.' Surely, whether we agree with the noble critic in his admiration... | |
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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. 
