 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...Shakspeare's name. Pretty I 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 'tis not hard... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things we know are neither rieh ife be tied to law, But joy'd weak women's hearts to tempt and prove, If exeus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
 | English drama - 1826 - 372 pages
...— " Pretty 1 in amber to observe the forms " Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms I " The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, " But wonder how the devil they got there !» Of the vocal performers, we have to speak in terms of unqualified praise. Mr. Braham sang the airs... | |
 | William Lisle Bowles - 1826 - 175 pages
...among the intelligent, enlightened, and splendid articles of the Quarterly Review ! — 119 " Such things, we know, are neither rich nor rare; "But wonder how the devil they came there !" Pope. But in fact, notwithstanding all this mysterious concealment, I pretty well guess... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Artists - 1827 - 400 pages
...by the royal supporters. A lion, an unicorn, and a king on such an eminence are very surprising :* The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. He also rebuilt some part of All-Souls College,-^ Oxford, the two towers over the gate of which are... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 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...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... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1829 - 606 pages
...elucidated by Brydone, on Etna, in the lines of Pope, on an occasion, too, not dissimilar to the present. ' The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." They offer, indeed, many interesting suggestions relative to the antiquity of our globe, and corroborate... | |
 | Rowland Dobie - Bloomsbury (London, England) - 1829 - 472 pages
...hugged by the royal supporters. A lion, a unicorn, and a king on such an eminence is very surprising ; The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." — Walpole. The author of " a new Critical Review of the Public Buildings," before quoted, speaks... | |
 | Christianity - 1829 - 612 pages
...elucidated by Urydone, on Etna, in the lines of Pope, on an occasion, too, not dissimilar to the present. ' The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.' They offer, indeed, many interesting suggestions relative to the antiquity of our globe, and corroborate... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...fortune, and all, in that which wickedly and dteiliMy those impostors called the cause of God. &mtk. The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare ; But wonder how the demi they got there ! Pope. With all these tokens of a knave complete, If thou art honest, thou 'it... | |
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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. 
