 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 ... - Page 183de William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 pages
...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.... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 pages
...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 puns or politics or tales or lies Or spite or smut or rhymes or blasphemies.... | |
 | Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald - 1883 - 408 pages
...all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes the pnppet 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... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1885 - 392 pages
...the way. Whether in flori 1 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 hlasphemies,... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1885 - 424 pages
...the way. Whether in florii 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 - 1963 - 884 pages
...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 Politicks, or Tales, or Lyes, Or Spite, or Smut, or Rymes, or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 pages
...all the way. Whether \njlorid Impotence he fpeaks, And as the prompter breathes the puppet fqucaks^ Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad *, Half froth, half venom, fpits himfclf abroad. In puns, or politics, or tales, or lyes, Or fpite, or fmut, or rhymes, or blafphemies.—... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 pages
...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.... | |
 | Kirk Freudenburg - 2005 - 380 pages
...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,... | |
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