 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pagina’s
...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...got there. Were others angry : I excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. As man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; 175... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pagina’s
...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...got there. Were others angry : I excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. As man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; 175... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 288 pagina’s
...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...got there. Were others angry : I excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. As man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; 175... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pagina’s
...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...j Well might they rage, I gave them but their due, A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find; 175 But each man's fecret ftandard in his mind, That Cafting-weight... | |
 | 1764 - 198 pagina’s
...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 - 1777 - 262 pagina’s
...ooferve the lorms Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ( The things we know are neither lich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were others angry : I excus'd them too; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hai'd to find ; But each... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 414 pagina’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 neither rich nor rare, But...got there. Were others angry : I excus'd them too; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find; 175 But... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - 1780 - 248 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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. 
