 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad...  Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq;: Faithfully ... - Sivu 183tekijä(t) William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1848 - 636 sivua
...the way : Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad ! Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, ID pun or politics, or tales or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.:... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 sivua
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad ', Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.... | |
 | 1849 - 820 sivua
...all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks And as the prompter breathes the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad ! Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In pun or politics, or tales or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1851 - 370 sivua
...extraordinary merit. Where shall we find more meaning, more keenly expressed, than in the lines — " Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad 1 " Though, perhaps, it would have been still better if the allusion had been... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 sivua
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad ! * Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, 320 In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 sivua
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1860 - 528 sivua
...intimate of queen Caroline — Hervey is thus delineated : " Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet fqueaks...Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, halfveuom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 sivua
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1878 - 592 sivua
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the Prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks : Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad! Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad. In pun, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 sivua
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks,' And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or Ires, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies... | |
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