 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 páginas
...E'en such small critics some regard may claim. Preserved in Milton's or in Shakspeare's name. Prerty ! 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, Cut wonder how the devil they g< t there. Were others angry... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 páginas
...that lives on syllables, E'en such small critics some regard may claim, Preserv'd in Milton's or in Shakspeare's name. Pretty ! in amber to observe the...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 angry... | |
 | Jonathan BIRD - 1863 - 384 páginas
...possess a deeper interest, and we may apply to them the graceful and appreciative lines of Pope : ' 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 mischief they got there ! ' hill... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 446 páginas
...suggestive of a very different poetry from that which Pope elaborated from them in his well-known simile: " 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 mischief they got there! " Fossil insects... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...Line 91. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. Line 127. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms, Of hairs, or straws, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor - 1869 - 412 páginas
...apple got into the midst of a seamless dumpling; as Pope marveEed at the trifles found in amber — " Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or ffrubs, or worms : The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 páginas
...statnes, or breathless stones, Star'd on each other, and look'd deadly pale. «mnITB Sh. Ric. nl. in. 7. 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. Pope, Up, to Arb.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 páginas
...he gdds beloved) at sixteen or seventeen years of Age ; an early period for such acquaintance'. ' * Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, ye know, are neither rich nor rare. But wonder now the devil they got there. Were others angry:... | |
 | Edward Duffield Neill - 1867 - 128 páginas
...ornaments made of Bermudas' products ; and exclaim, in substance, as in later years the poet Pope : ' ' Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or worms." long black hair down their shoulders. On the stage was an Island of rocks and caves, and Pint... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 páginas
...Line 91. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. Line 127. 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. Line 169. Means... | |
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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. 
