 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...in Milton's or in Shakefpear's name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! 170 The things we know are...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 are...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
