 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 512 頁
...fiction lie ; A lash like mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremble — A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk 1 Satire of sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 頁
...Let Sporus tremble1 — A. What? that thing of silk, 305 Sporus, that mere white curd of Ass's milk3? 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 stinks and stings;... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 頁
...213. Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe. Line 283. Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel, Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? Line 307. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Line... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 頁
...his health." It is to his lordship's use of that simple beverage that he alludes when he says — " Let Sporus tremble ! — A. What, that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white-curd of ass's milk ?" • PRIOR, CAY, AND POPE. 287 remembered that the pillory was a flourishing... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1870 - 454 頁
...family. Here lived John, Lord Hervey, the Sporus of Pope, and husband of the beautiful Molly Lepell. " P. Let Sporus tremble — " A. What ! that thing of silk, Sporus ! that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? " Augustus,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 168 頁
...lye. A lash like mine no honest •man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremble — A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 頁
...fiction lye. A lash like mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus tremble — A. What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? P. Yet... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 頁
...lash like mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead. Let Sporus1 tremble A. What ? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk ? Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel ? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? P. Yet... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 462 頁
...the " Prologue to the Satires." See LOKD FANNY. Let Sporus tremble. — What I that thing of Sporwj, that mere white curd of asses' milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporvxfeel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel ? Pope. Squab, Poet. See POET SQDAB. Square, Mr. The... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 頁
...his health." It is to his lordship's use of that simple beverage that he alludes when he says — • "Let Sporus tremble !— A. What, that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white-curd of ass's milk." person the butt for many a bolt of heavy wit. The facetious Mr. Dennis,... | |
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What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk, Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? 
