| William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745 - 432 pages
...the Witty and the Fair annoys, Yet Wit ne'er taftes, nor Beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred Spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the Game they dare not bite. Eternal Smiles his Emptinefs betray, As {hallow Streams run dimpling all the Way. Whether in florid Impotence he fpeaks,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tafles, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred fpaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal fmiles his emptinefs betray, 315 As fhallow flrcams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 288 pages
...the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred fpaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal fmiles his emptinefs betray, 315 As (hallow ftreams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tafles, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred fpaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal fmiles his emptinefs betray, 315 As (hallow ftreams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...witty and the fair annoys, 3 1 1 Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred fpaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal fmiles his emptinefs betray, 315 As mallow ftreams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence... | |
| Literature - 1764 - 198 pages
...the wicty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well bred fpaniels civilly delight, In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal fmiles his emptinefs betray, As mallow flreams run dimpling all the way. » I" have inferred the moft... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 414 pages
...the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred fpaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal finiles his emptinefs betray, 31S As fhallow ftreams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...all the way. Whether m florid impotence he fpeaks, And as the prompter breathes the puppet fqueaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad *, Half froth, half venom, fpits himfelf abroad. In puns, or politics, or tales, or lyes, Or fpite, or fmut, or rhymes, or blafphemies.-rAmphibiou... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred fpaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal fmiles his emptinefs betray, As fhallow ftreams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er taftes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred fpaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal fmiles his emptinefs betray, 315 As fhallow ftreams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence... | |
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