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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. "
The poets of Great Britain complete from Chaucer to Churchill - Página 131
por John Bell - 1807
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Selections from the British Poets, Volumen1

Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 páginas
...know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder 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 to find ; But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This, who...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volumen1

1840 - 372 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 wonder how the devil they got there. r Were others angry ? I excused them top ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1841 - 840 páginas
...name. Pretty! in чтЬег to observe the forms Of hairs, „r straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! Peor and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that...taper's holy shine ; The Libye Hammon shrinks his hor ; 3ut each man's secret standard in his mind. That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness. This, who...
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Calvin and the church of Geneva. William Whittingham and the Puritans ...

William Cooke Taylor - 1842 - 416 páginas
...true, as Pope says, that it is sometimes pleasing to see insects and straws encased in amber, — % " The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." The Duke, however, has some claims upon our attention ; his career is one of the most strikingly illustrative...
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The works of lord Byron, with notes by T. Moore [and others].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 páginas
...Lepidu»" of this poetical triumvirate. 1 am only surprised to see him in such good company. " Such he name of Love ! It was love — unchangeable — unchanged, he came there." The trio are well defined in the sixth proposllion of Euclid : " Because, in the triangles...
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The Poems of Alexander Pope: A One-volume Edition of the Twickenham Text ...

Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 páginas
...Shakespear's 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 wonder how the Devil they got there ? 146. Authors of secret and scandalous History [P]. Thomas Burnet is believed to have written Pope...
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Nineteenth Century and After: A Monthly Review, Volumen53

1903 - 1096 páginas
...the public verdict would be accurately expressed by Pope's famous lines about the flies in amber : The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. It would appear that there is very little distinction nowadays between some of the Ministers within...
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Alexander Pope

Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 páginas
...Shakespear'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 wonder how the Devil they got there? Pope may be thought somewhat small-minded and vengeful here, especially in the light of his own claim,...
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Life in Amber

George O. Poinar - 1992 - 388 páginas
...some instances: "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." The present work surveys all life forms, from microbes to vertebrates, that have been reported from...
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Selected Poetry

Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 páginas
...Shakespeare's 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...
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