 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1847 - 426 pages
...Sporus : — " Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express'd : A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust."* Upon the Duke of Grafton, who is mentioned in Lord Hervey's letters, Swift has penned the following... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...heart. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express'd, 330 A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool, Not lucre's madman, nor ambition's tool, 335 Not proud... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool, Not lucre's madman, nor ambition's tool, Not proud, nor... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed, A cherub's face, and reptile all the rest : Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper, nor fashion's fool. Not lucre's madman, nor ambition's tool, Not proud, nor... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 pages
...20. A cherub's face. 21: A reptile all the reit. 22. The Rabbins. 23. Pride that licks the iliut. " ' Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and prid¿ that licts the dust.' " Now, is there a line of all the passage ¡! without the most forcible... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, forms our mortal port, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart, As full, as perfect, in vile man that Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's fool, Not Lucre's madman, nor Ambition's tool, Not proud, nor... | |
 | James Hannay - 1854 - 292 pages
...concludes : " Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed, — A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." This Satire, or libel if you like, has every merit which such a work can have : brilliance, epigram,... | |
 | James Hannay - 1854 - 296 pages
...concludes : " Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have expressed, — A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust....Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust." This Satire, or libel if you like, has every merit which such a work can have: brilliance, epigram)... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have express'd, 330 A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust,...Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's fool, Not Lucre's madman, nor Ambition's tool, 335 Not proud,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...thus the Rabbins have express'd, 330 A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Not Fortune's worshipper, nor Fashion's fool, Not Lucre's madman, nor Ambition's tool, 335 Not proud,... | |
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A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest. Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. 
