 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...al the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have expreat, h of gold between, that cast a glittering shade ; will trust. Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...corrupted heart, ^op at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Vow trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Jve's t my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread ; 3eauty that shocks yon, parts thai none will trust. Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...a part ? A trifling head, and a corrupted heart. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express'd, 330 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. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1847 - 426 pages
...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, who is mentioned... | |
 | 1847 - 426 pages
...prototype of Lord Bolingbroke, and sometimes even reminds us of Pope's concluding lines on Lord Hervey, — "Beauty that shocks you — parts that none can trust, — Wit that can creep- — and pride that licks the dust." The leading adventures of his most romantic life, and the... | |
 | 1847 - 424 pages
...of Lord Bolingbroke, and sometimes even reminds us of Pope's concluding lines on Lord Hervey, — " Beauty that shocks you — parts that none can trust, — Wit that can creep — and pride that licks the dust." The leading adventures of his most romantic life, and the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 602 pages
...the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord ! Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have eipress'd, A cherub's face — a reptile all the rest : Beauty...shocks you, parts that none can trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." " Though the substance and many of the sharpest points of this... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 606 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...shocks you, parts that none can trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust !" Though the substance and many of the sharpest points of this... | |
 | John Hervey Baron Hervey - 1848 - 608 pages
...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 and many of the sharpest points of this... | |
 | 1849 - 820 pages
...at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord, Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed A cherub's face— a reptile all the rest ! Beauty...shocks you, parts that none can trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." There is no eecape from the effect of such a closing, as that,... | |
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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. 
