 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...amber to oblcrvc the forms Of hairs, or draws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things we know arc neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were others angry, 1 excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 260 pages
...pear's name. Pretty ! in Amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, or Draws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Wife others angry : I ex'cus'd ihem too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - English language - 1794 - 548 pages
...read of one author preferved in the amber of another, before now ; and have faid with Mr. Pope ; Such things we know are neither rich nor RARE, But wonder how the devil they got there ! And I fee not why this paflage mould have been unintelligible. A cart-wheel is certainly no SCARCE... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...Sbatcfieare's name. Pictty ! in Amber to obfervc the forms Of hairs, or llraws, 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 ; \Vell might they tage, I gave them but their due. A man's... | |
 | 1797 - 614 pages
...sect, nit.' ' 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. * As I have occasionally quoted, for the entertainment of the render and to relieve the dryncss of... | |
 | Biography - 1798 - 410 pages
...by the royal fupporters : a lion, an unicorn, and a king, on fuch an eminence, are very furprifmg. " The things we know are neither rich nor rare, " But...wonder how the devil they got there." He alfo rebuilt fomc part of All-Souls-coIlege, 'Oxford At Blenheim and Gallic-Howard he was affociated with Vanbtugh,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...Shakeipeare's name. Pretty! in amber to pbferve the forms Of hairs, or draws, 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 : 1 excus'd tliem too ; Well might they rage, | gave them but their due. A man's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 190 pages
...Shakespeare's name. 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. Were others angry ; I excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...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... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - Malta - 1806 - 422 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
