| John Bell - 1807 - 562 páginas
...clainti Prcserv'd in Milton's, or in Shakespeare's name. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms 169 The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, 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.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 páginas
...Shakespeare'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 angry: 1 excus'd then too; Wcll might they rage, I gave them bat their due.... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...Nhaktpfarc's name. Pretty '. in amber to oLsuvc the forms Of hairs or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! a got there. Were others angry : I excus'd th«in too ; Well might they Mge, I gave them but their due.... | |
| 1809 - 402 páginas
...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 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.... | |
| John Opie - 1809 - 312 páginas
...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... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...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 angry : I excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...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 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.... | |
| 1816 - 816 páginas
...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... | |
| William Beloe - 1817 - 402 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
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