 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, 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. As man's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 288 pages
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, 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. As man's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, 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. As man's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 360 pages
...foreft, and wore out the wretched remainder of his life in all the agonies of defpair. Cl 24 PROLOGUE 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 j Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. NOTES. VER.... | |
 | Literature - 1764 - 198 pages
...Shakefpear's name. Pretty in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there *. • Verfe 167. The The imagery in thefe lines is exceffive]y beautiful, the fatire poignant to the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 414 pages
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, or ftraws, 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole, George Vertue - Gardening - 1786 - 360 pages
...hugged by the royal fupporter*. A lion, an unicorn, and a king on fuch an eminence are very furprifing : The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare^ But wonder how the devil they got there. He alfo rebuilt fome part of All-Sou{s college, * Oxford, the two towers ovqr the gate of which are... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...Sbaktfpear's name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, oritraws, 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: ] excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obfcrve the forms Of hairs, or flraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! ITO The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were others angry : I cxcus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...Amber to obiervc the forms Of hairs, or rtraws, or <liit, or grubs, or worms 1 The things we know arc n fading into age, fftrcngthi, And pale concluding Winter comes Were others angry :' 1 excui'd them too ; Well might thev rage, I gave them but their due. A man's... | |
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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. 
