| British poets - 1809 - 526 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... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...the way. Whether in florid iinpottnce 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 politic:), of tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 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, spit* himself abroad, 320 In pnns, or polit'us, or tales, or lies. Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or... | |
| Arthur Collins - 1812 - 564 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, Amphihious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeak* ; 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... | |
| Arthur Collins - 1812 - 556 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, Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted... | |
| William Coxe - 1816 - 464 pages
...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, &c. " Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, " The trifling head, or the... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 402 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.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 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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