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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. "
The wits and beaux of society, by Grace and Philip Wharton - Page 239
by Katherine Thomson - 1860
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Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 15

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...the board, Now trips a lady, and now 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." Prol. to Sat.] that...
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Woman: as she is, and as she should be

Woman - 1835 - 758 pages
...great enemy of our race had angelic features, and we read that a fairer person lost not heaven ; — " A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest, Beauty that shocks you ! " The liberality of nature in the person, is frequently attended with a deficiency of understanding....
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 pages
...at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus, the Rabbins have exprest, 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,...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ...

Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have express'd, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not fortune's worshipper,...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 7

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1839 - 584 pages
...at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabins have exprest, 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." Such also was the opinion...
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The History of England, Volume 10

Sir James Mackintosh - 1840 - 446 pages
...at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have exprest, 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." Yet, notwithstanding...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...at the board, Sow trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have eipresi, or gave ; To keep ¡t in her power to damn and save : Scripture parts that none will trust. Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not Fortune's worshipper,...
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The St. Petersburg English Review, of Literature, the Arts, and ..., Volume 3

1842 - 586 pages
...betray," As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. 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 can trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.' Surely, whether we agree...
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The St. Peterburg English Review, Volume 3

S. Warrand - 1842 - 580 pages
...betray," As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have cxpress'd, A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest ; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none can trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.' Surely, whether we agree...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...al the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter thus the Rabbins have expreat, h of gold between, that cast a glittering shade ; parts that none will trust. Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. Not Fortune's worshipper,...
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