| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 392 Seiten
...Preferv'd-in Milton's or in Shakefpeare's name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 170 The things we know...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 hard... | |
| Patrick Brydone - 1780 - 248 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...Preferv'd 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...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 Seiten
...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 - 966 Seiten
...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... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 Seiten
...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... | |
| James Roach - 1794 - 260 Seiten
...pear's name. Pretty ! in Amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, or Draws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Wife others angry : I ex'cus'd ihem too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1794 - 548 Seiten
...read of one author preferved in the amber of another, before now ; and have faid with Mr. Pope ; Such things we know are neither rich nor RARE, But wonder how the devil they got there ! And I fee not why this paflage mould have been unintelligible. A cart-wheel is certainly no SCARCE... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 Seiten
...Sbatcfieare's name. Pictty ! in Amber to obfervc the forms Of hairs, or llraws, 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 excus'd them too ; \Vell might they tage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
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