 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 sider
...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. Were others angry, I excused them too : Well might they rage ; I gave them but their due. A man's true... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 sider
...name Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The reign, The earth's fair light, and empress of the main. Here, too, 'tis sung, of Were others angry ? I excused them too ; Well might they rage : I gave them but their due. A man's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 386 sider
...the " 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 sider
...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 sider
...the " 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 sider
...name. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forme 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. Were others angry : I excused them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true... | |
 | 1839 - 798 sider
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 sider
...Pretty! in чтЬег to observe the forms Of hairs, „r straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The and Baalim Forsake their temples dim, With that twice-balter'd go3 of Palestine ; Were others angry : I excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1842 - 416 sider
...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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 sider
...the " Lepidu»" of this poetical triumvirate. 1 am only surprised to see him in such good company. " sks the 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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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. 
