 | 1839 - 798 lehte
...Pretty ! in limber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The tilings, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." Dut it was once esteemed quite as rich and rare as the amber in which it is now preserved, and nothing... | |
 | 1840 - 372 lehte
...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. r Were others angry ? I excused them top ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1842 - 416 lehte
...true, as Pope says, that it is sometimes pleasing to see insects and straws encased in amber, — % " The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." The Duke, however, has some claims upon our attention ; his career is one of the most strikingly illustrative... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 lehte
...Lepidu»" of this poetical triumvirate. 1 am only surprised to see him in such good company. " Such he name of Love ! It was love — unchangeable — unchanged, he came there." The trio are well defined in the sixth proposllion of Euclid : " Because, in the triangles... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 lehte
...Shakspeare's name. Pretty! in imber to observe the forms Of hairs, ,,r straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! de went armed guards, Beth hone and foot, before him...and slingers, cataphracts and spears. At s.zht of hi ; Veil might they rnge, I gave them hut their due. A man's true merit 'lis not hurd to find ; lut each... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 lehte
...Shakspeare's name. Pretty! in nmber to observe the forms Of hairs, «r straws, or dirt, or gruhs, or worms.' cxcus'd them loo ; Veil might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'lis not hard... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1845 - 978 lehte
...IN AMBER. 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. FOFE. WE must now beg the reader to follow us from the King of England's cabinet, to the dressing-room... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 lehte
...attacked Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 170 The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. NOTES. others and been attacked himself, with a degree of asperity and virulence not exceeded by any... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 lehte
...Lepldus" of this poetical triumvirate. I am only surprised to see him In such good company. " Such things, we know, are neither rich nor rare. But wonder how the devil he came there." The trio are well defined in the sixth proposition of Euclid : " Because, in the triangles... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 lehte
...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 got there. The hard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown ; Just writes to... | |
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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. 
