 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 ページ
...Shakspeare's name. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grabs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But...how the devil they got there. Were others angry, I excused them too; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 ページ
...Shakspeare's name. Pretty I in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But...how the devil they got there. Were others angry : I excused them too: Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 ページ
...observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things we know are neither rieh ife be tied to law, But joy'd weak women's hearts to tempt and prove, If exeus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 ページ
...in amber to observe the forms JJI bain, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! Were others nngry : immering glades ; ; But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This, who... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 ページ
...rich nor rare, iut wonder how the devil they got there. Were others angry : I excused them too ; Veil fa !, ; iut each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness This, who... | |
 | 1826 - 372 ページ
...— " Pretty 1 in amber to observe the forms " Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms I " The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, " But wonder how the devil they got there !» Of the vocal performers, we have to speak in terms of unqualified praise. Mr. Braham sang the airs... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1826 - 175 ページ
...among the intelligent, enlightened, and splendid articles of the Quarterly Review ! — 119 " Such things, we know, are neither rich nor rare; "But wonder how the devil they came there !" Pope. But in fact, notwithstanding all this mysterious concealment, I pretty well guess... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1827 - 400 ページ
...by the royal supporters. A lion, an unicorn, and a king on such an eminence are very surprising :* The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. He also rebuilt some part of All-Souls College,-^ Oxford, the two towers over the gate of which are... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 ページ
...Shakspeare's name. Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But...how the devil they got there. Were others angry: I excused them too; Well might they rage I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
 | 1829 - 612 ページ
...elucidated by Urydone, on Etna, in the lines of Pope, on an occasion, too, not dissimilar to the present. ' The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.' They offer, indeed, many interesting suggestions relative to the antiquity of our globe, and corroborate... | |
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Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. 
