 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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.... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - 1851 - 370 pages
...extraordinary merit. Where shall we find more meaning, more keenly expressed, than in the lines — " Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad 1 " Though, perhaps, it would have been still better if the allusion had been... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1860 - 524 pages
...intimate of queen Caroline — Hervey is thus delineated : " Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet fqueaks...Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, halfveuom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 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... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1878 - 592 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 pun, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 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 Ires, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1864 - 324 pages
...Dunciad" Pope has the line, "Even Palinurus nodded at the helm." What is the point of this line ? 63. " Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad." Of whom is Pope here speaking ? and who is intended by Eve ? 64. " Ask you why... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 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, 320 In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or... | |
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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... 
