 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 lehte
...which he is reported to have bioke out — " Quodnam ego tantum fcclus concepi, O Chriite ! qucm ego The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were NOTES. tgo tuorum unquain Ixfi, ut ita inexpiabili in me odio debaccheri:. ? .Audi ea qure tibi mentis... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - 1806 - 422 lehte
...level of the fea. They are of the commoneft kinds, cockles, muffels, oyfters, &c. " The things \ve 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 mixed with the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 lehte
...in Milton's or in Shakspcare's name. Pretty! in amher to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! 170 The things, we know,...how the devil they got there. Were others angry; I e*cus'd them too; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 lehte
...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. . A man's true merit 'tis not... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1816 - 816 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 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 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. 
