 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 288 σελίδες
...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...; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. As man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; 175 But each man's fecret ftandard in his mind, NOTES.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 σελίδες
...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...; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. As man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; 175 But each man's fecret ftandard in his mind, NOTES.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 σελίδες
...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...; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. As man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; 175 But each man's fecret ftandard in his mind, NOTES.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 σελίδες
...i foi the m oft deleft able things in nature, The things we know, are neither rich nor rare, 1 7 1 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, A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find; 175 But... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 360 σελίδες
...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...got there. Were others angry ; I excus'd them too j Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. NOTES. VER. 164. Jla/hlng Bentley] This great man,... | |
 | 1764 - 198 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 σελίδες
...fyllables, Ev'n fuch fmall critics fome regard may claim, Preferv'd in Milton's or in Shakefpear's name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs,...rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were Were others angry : I excus'd them too ; Well might they rage; I gave them but their due. ^ A man's... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - 1780 - 248 σελίδες
...feet above the level of the fea. They are of the commoneft kinds, cockles, muffels, oyfters, &c. " The things we 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole, George Vertue - 1786 - 360 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...Preferv'd in Milton's or in Sbaktfpear's name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, oritraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! 170 The things we know...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 merit 'tis not hard... | |
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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. 
