 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 lehte
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 lehte
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 288 lehte
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 360 lehte
...foreft, and wore out the wretched remainder of his life in all the agonies of defpair. Cl 24 PROLOGUE 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 j Well might they rage, I gave them but their... | |
 | 1764 - 198 lehte
...Shakefpear's name. Pretty in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there *. • Verfe 167. The The imagery in thefe lines is exceffive]y beautiful, the fatire... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 lehte
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 170 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... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - 1780 - 248 lehte
...feet above the level of the fea. They are of the commoneft kinds, cockles, muffels, oyfters, &c. " The things we know are neither rich nor rare ; " But wonder how the devil they got there." POPE. By what means they have been lifted up to this vaft height, and fo intimately... | |
 | Horace Walpole, George Vertue - 1786 - 360 lehte
...the royal fupporter*. A lion, an unicorn, and a king on fuch an eminence are very furprifing : The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare^ But wonder how the devil they got there. He alfo rebuilt fome part of All-Sou{s college, * Oxford, the two towers ovqr the gate... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 lehte
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, oritraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! 170 The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were others angry: ] excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 lehte
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obfcrve the forms Of hairs, or flraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! ITO The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were others angry : I cxcus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their... | |
| |
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. 
