...themselves at the American habit of calling their beetles bugs, but forget their own great poet's lines : " Let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings." (Pope.) We speak thus of May-bugs and June-bugs, of Golden Bugs and even of Lightning-Bugs, instead...

...themselves at the American habit of calling their beetles bugs, but forget their own great poet's lines : " Let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings." (Pope.) We speak thus of May-bugs and June-bugs, of Golden Bugs and even of Lightning-Bugs, instead...

...themselves at the American habit of calling their beetles bugs, but forget their own great poet's lines : " Let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings." (Pope.) We speak thus of May-bugs and June-bugs, of Golden Bugs and even of Lightning-Bugs, instead...

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...— " Let Sporus tremble ! What I that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curds of ass's milk. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings — This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings." But it is unnecessary to quote the whole passage, for no doubt it is burnt with a pen of caustic into...

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...curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stmks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er...

..."Antithesis" and an "Amphibious Thing," both male and female, oscillating "between that and this": Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings, This painted...ne'er enjoys, So well-bred Spaniels civilly delight ln mumbling of the Game they dare not bite. Eternal Smiles his Emptiness betray, As shallow streams...

...spewed to make the batter.46 Mr. Pope is more refined, and actually makes his vulgarities melodious : Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings.*? However, all the 'classical' satirists of the baroque period avoided the oddities, the neologisms,...

...lme ziH of the Old English poem, which says (hat Beowulfs ship crosses the sea "most like a bird.' Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings. By displaying so forcefully and variously the ways in which the discipline of meter guides and shapes...