 | 1819 - 266 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Shakspeare's name. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of bain, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! structive blow ; And wasted man, whose quick decay Comes hurrying on before his day, Were others angry : I cxcus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...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. Were others angry : I excus'd them too; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...Sbakspeare'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: I excused them too; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true... | |
 | 1822 - 472 pages
...God knows, are neither rich nor rare; But we wonder how the devil they got there. says " John Bull." The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how .the devil they got theresays Pope. Where was the man's ear, when he could write such a line, in the idea that it was an... | |
 | sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1822 - 90 pages
...is elected, but the how or the why will be beyond the reach of our sagacity ;— We know the things are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there ! The remainder of these four things consists of three discoveries, of the highest importance to science... | |
 | G. Proctor, George Procter - United States - 1823 - 426 pages
...among my lucubrations, and thus give him that immortality which the commentators on Shakspeare enjoy. " The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." THE DAY OF BADAJOS. ' " Now speak, old soldier, The height of honour ?" " Rather to suffer than to... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 474 pages
...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 : I excused them too; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1824 - 406 pages
...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. Were others angry : I excused them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true... | |
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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. 
