 Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and 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 run dimpling all the way.  The Works of Lord Byron - Page 490by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, 31 1 Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred...prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Km, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, 320 In puns, or politics, or tales,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, 31 1 Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoyi : So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling...ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spit* himself abroad, 320 In pnns, or polit'us, or tales, or lies. Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; 310 Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
 | 1816 - 774 pages
...miltrefs. Shak. K. Lear. He with mumbled prayers atones the deity. Drjden's juv. i. To mouth gently. — Spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Pope. 3. To flubberover; tofupprefs; to utter imperfectly. — The raifing of my rabble is an exploit... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and tlie fair annoys, Yet Brown i Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, { As sliallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 468 pages
...This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings; 310 Whose buz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
 | William Frederick Deacon - 1823 - 494 pages
...sulphureous waves of Tartarus, will be in no hurry for a second warm-bath. CHARACTER »Tommcm-plarr " Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way."—POPE. THERE is a class of persons, indigenous to England, which appears to have escaped the... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 pages
...This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred...prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks : Or at the car of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 498 pages
...This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way; Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys : So well-bred...dare not bite. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 315 As shallow streams run dimpling all the way; Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the... | |
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