| 1832 - 384 páginas
...obtruded on the spectator, on the most solemn occasions, as the principal objects in the piece 1 ! ! ** The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there !" With all these defects, such are the powers displayed in their works, that many of those of a confessedly... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 382 páginas
...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...their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting weight pride adds to emptiness, This who... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 páginas
...name. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 170 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 páginas
...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 'tit not hard... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 386 páginas
...Lepidus" of this poetical triumvirate. I am only surprised to see him in such good company. " Such things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil he came there,*' The trio are well defined in the sixth proposition of Euclid : " Because, in the triangles... | |
| 1837 - 516 páginas
...Pope's simile : 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. We are aware of Mr. Dickinson's inventions, and of his great manufacturing skill and celebrity ; but... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 336 páginas
...Lepidus " of this poetical triumvirate. I am only surprised to see him in such goodT company. " Such things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil he came there." The trio are well defined in the sixth proposition of Euclid: " Because, in the triangles... | |
| Alden Bradford - 1838 - 504 páginas
...New-England : I could not help calling to mind a couplet of Pope's, if you will excuse my quoting it — ' The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare — But wonder how the d — 1 they got there.' ' It is no small mortification to me, to find what a mean opinion gentleman... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 páginas
...Shakspeare's name. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forme Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! / excused them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
| 1839 - 798 páginas
...Pretty ! in limber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The tilings, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." Dut it was once esteemed quite as rich and rare as the amber in which it is now preserved, and nothing... | |
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