 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 lehte
...Shakspeare's name Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! / excused them too ; Well might they rage : I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
 | Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1831 - 364 lehte
...has said, Pretty in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, and straws, and dirt, and grubs, and worms; The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. If the authority of another poet may be admitted, Martial has removed the wonder. He tells us, in three... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 498 lehte
...Lepidus" 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 arc well defined in the sixth proposition of Euclid : *« Because, in the... | |
 | 1844 - 630 lehte
...leave their larder. All these Beem out of place — unnatural means to the end — " The things we see are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." From my fondness for spaniels, the infinite pains I have taken in the breeding and breaking, and the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832 - 394 lehte
...Lepidus" 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832 - 384 lehte
...Lepidus" 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 In. came there." The trio are well defined in the sixth proposition of Euclid : " Because, in the triangles... | |
 | 1832 - 384 lehte
...obtruded on the spectator, on the most solemn occasions, as the principal objects in the piece 1 ! ! ** 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 lehte
...in Milton's or in Shakspeare's name. Pretty ! in amber 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 excused them too : Well might they rage ; I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 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...how the devil they got there. Were others angry ? I excused them too ; Well might they rage : I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tit not hard... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 386 lehte
...Lepidus" 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... | |
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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. 
