 Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 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,...  A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the ... - Page 147by John Burke - 1832Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...beauty ne'er enjoys : So well- bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams...And as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venotn, spits himself abroad, ID puns, or politics,... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 pages
...beauty ne'er enjoys : So welt-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they cannot bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams...And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half-froth, half-venom, spi ts himself abroad : In puns, or politiet,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 234 pages
...beauty ne'er enjoys So well-bred spaniels civilly delight tn mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams...all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, Apd, as the prompter breathes, the puppet sqi Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 pages
...beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbKng of the game they cannot bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams...And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks^ Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad', Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad : In punt, or polities,... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 pages
...the game they cannot bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling nil the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the pufpet squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad :... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...made a wit ; And that, for any thing in nature, Pigs might tqueak love-odes, dogs bark satire. Prior. In florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet aqueaks. Pope Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses the squeaking pigs of Homer. Id. Odyuiy. SQUEA'iMISH,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the gamo they dare not bite. ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad. In puns, or politics,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...beauty ne'er enjoys; So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams...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,... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...Cowper, — " Folly ever has a vacant stare, A simpering countenance, and a trifling air." And Pope, " Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way." A person of this kind is a tiresome companion. A laugh may be introduced occasionally, as a chorus... | |
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