 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 632 pages
...Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's temper thus the rabbins have exprest, A cherub's faee, 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 pages
...heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's temper thus the rabbins have exprest, A cherub's face, a...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 176 pages
...governed George II. Familiar, used often in this sense by Milton, Par. Lost, 2. 219, 761; n. 305. 1. 330. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have exprest, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. For the opinion that Eve's tempter was not any natural serpent, but Satan in a form half seraphic,... | |
 | Robert Weir Brown - 1881 - 348 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." In one of his letters to Caroline,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 196 pages
...the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have exprest, 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... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 pages
...at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's temper 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. Not fortune's worshipper nor fashion's... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1883 - 408 pages
...corrupted heart ; Fop at the toilet, flatt'rer 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. Mr. Croker says, justly, that "though... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1883 - 446 pages
...flatt'rer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord ! Eve's tempter thus, the Rabbins havo 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. Mr. Croker says, justly, that "though... | |
 | 1884 - 664 pages
...morality, have been immortalised in the withering couplet which concludes Pope's picture of ' Sporus ' : " Beauty that shocks you, parts that none can trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." Yet Hervey had the power of attracting and retaining regard... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1885 - 424 pages
...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 1 Cruel and unjust as is the satire, it yet contains sufficient... | |
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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. 
