...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. • Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes...puppet squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad." It concludes : " Eve's tempter thus the rabbins have...

...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 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 Eye, familiar toad, Half-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad." It concludes : " Eve's tempter thus...

...just. Pope calls Hervey an insect, annoying the witty and the fair with his buzz; a reptile, who " At the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad " in lying, tale-bearing, and spite (Eve is l 2 Queen Caroline); an effeminate, " amphibious thing," " That,...

...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes,...himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies : His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now...

...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes,...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,...

...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes,...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,...

...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes,...himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies ; His wit all see-saw between that and this, Now...

...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid with the well-known seats ; And to Ercctheus' sacred...stops, and anxious with his soul debates, Fix'd in ar. polities, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all sce-saw, betwcen...

...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes,...himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies ; His wit all see-saw between that and this, Now...

...Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes,...himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies ; His wit all see-saw between that and this, Xow...