 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1885 - 392 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 ! Cruel and unjust as is the satire, it yet contains sufficient... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 462 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." In July appeared the Second Satire,... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1889 - 440 pages
...corrupted heart, III 1C 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." In July appeared the Second Satire,... | |
 | G. Douglas Atkins - 1985 - 172 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. (ll. 309-33) According to Aubrey Williams,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 2007 - 764 pages
...the grand innocence of civility, and so to re-create in society the first sin of the first garden. Eve's Tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest, A Cherub's Face, a Reptile all the rest. . . . There is perhaps no more powerful an instance of Pope's familiarizing an ancient myth than in... | |
 | Ian McCormick - 1997 - 276 pages
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; 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 Or at the ear of Eve, 44 familiar toad, Half froth,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed, 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... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...associated words. Alexander Pope reminds us of the form attributed to the serpent in the Garden of Eden: Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest, A Cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. rep II: snatch. See labh. L rapere, raptitm. rape, ravish; note the contrasted meanings of ravishing,... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 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 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... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2005 - 1864 pages
...the Toilet, Flatt'rer at the Board, Now trips a Lady, and now struts a Lord. Eve s Tempter thus die Rabbins 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. Not Fortune's Worshipper, nor Fashions... | |
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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. 
