 | British poets - 1809 - 526 страници
...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...got there. Were others angry : I excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; But each... | |
 | 1809 - 402 страници
...Sbakspe.tr'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...got there. Were others angry : I excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; But each... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 страници
...Nhaktpfarc's name. Pretty '. in amber to oLsuvc the forms Of hairs or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! a th«in too ; Well might they Mge, I gave them but their due. A man^s tn.e merit 'tis not hard to find... | |
 | John Opie - 1809 - 312 страници
...obtruded on the spectator, on the most solemn occasions, as the principal objects in the piece ! ! ! " The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there ! " With all these defects, such are the powers displayed in their works, that many of those of a confessedly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 страници
...Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things we know are neither rich nor rare, 171 But wonder how the devil they got there. Were others angry : I excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; But each... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 страници
...name. Pretty! in amber to observe the forms 169 Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But...got there. Were others angry : I excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; 175 But... | |
 | 1816 - 816 страници
...tax'd, and beaten, is the «/««/. Cra«v. 4. A kind of expletive, cxpr.fl-.ng wonder or vexati°nThe things, we know, are neither rich nor rare; But wonder how the devil they got theie . .1 'of. ,. A kind of ludicrous negative in an adveibial fenfeThe devil was well, the Avil a... | |
 | William Beloe - 1817 - 402 страници
...PROLOGUE TO SAT. 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 came there. MARTIAL. VI. 15. Dum Phaetontea formica vagatur in umbri Implicuit tenuem succina gutta... | |
 | 1819 - 266 страници
...cannot help regarding these coroneted insects, like the worms embalmed in amber, described by Pope : " The things we know, are neither rich nor rare, * But wonder how the devil they got thete."' And when we see others of our nobility sneaking about under armorial degradation, from town... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 страници
...Shakspeare's name. Pretty ! in amher to ohserve the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or gruhs, or worms ! The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they gut there. The hard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown, Who torns a Persian tale for half a erown ; Just... | |
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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. 
