 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 ページ
...small critics some regard may claim, Preserv'd in Milton's or in 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 wonder how the devil they got there. Were others... | |
 | 1822 - 284 ページ
...Sbakspeare'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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 ページ
...vitam agere decrevi." Whereupon, says my author, he quitted the converse of men, threw himself into The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. NOTES. the thickest of a forest, and wore out the wretched remainder of his life in all the agonies... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 452 ページ
...vitam agere decrevi." Whereupon, says my author, he quitted the converse of men, threw himself into The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. NOTES. the thickest of a forest, and wore out the wretched remainder of his life in all the agonies... | |
 | 1822 - 472 ページ
...God knows, are neither rich nor rare; But we wonder how the devil they got there. says " John Bull." The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how .the devil they got theresays Pope. Where was the man's ear, when he could write such a line, in the idea that it was an... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 ページ
...small critics some regard may claim, Preserved in Milton's or in Shakspeare'a name. Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms f. The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were others... | |
 | sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1822 - 90 ページ
...is elected, but the how or the why will be beyond the reach of our sagacity ;— We know the things are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there ! The remainder of these four things consists of three discoveries, of the highest importance to science... | |
 | G. Proctor, George Procter - 1823 - 426 ページ
...among my lucubrations, and thus give him that immortality which the commentators on Shakspeare enjoy. " The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." THE DAY OF BADAJOS. ' " Now speak, old soldier, The height of honour ?" " Rather to suffer than to... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 ページ
...answer (as it stands in his collection of letters) is, that if the engraver could Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! 170 NOTES. could collect together the several graces of Masinissa, Xenophon, and Plato, he might then be... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 ページ
...answer (as it stands in his collection of letters) is, that if the engraver could Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 170 NOTES. could collect together the several graces of Masinissa, Xenophon, and Plato, he might then be... | |
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