 | Patrick Brydone - 1780 - 248 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 merit 'tis not hard... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 páginas
...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...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 merit 'tis not hard... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 páginas
...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 merit 'tis not hard... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 páginas
...Amber to obiervc the forms Of hairs, or rtraws, or <liit, or grubs, or worms 1 The things we know arc neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were others angry :' 1 excui'd them too ; Well might thev rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not... | |
 | James Roach - 1794 - 260 páginas
...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 - 1794 - 548 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 páginas
...hai rs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 1 70 The things, we know, are neither rich nor lare. But wonder how the devil they got there. Were others...due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find; 175 That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness. This who can gratify ? for who can guess ? The bard whom... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 páginas
...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...got there. Were others angry : I excus'd them too ; \Vell might they tage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; But... | |
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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. 
