| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...Milton's or in -Sha&efpear's name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 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. As man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...in Milton's or in Skakefpear's name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 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. As man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 288 pages
...in Milton's or in Sbakefpear's name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 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. As man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...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 each man's fecret ftandard in his mind, That Cafting-weight pride adds to emptinefs, This,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1757 - 272 pages
...facetui^ ,, Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms 1 170 The things we know, are neither rich nor rare, But...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... | |
| 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...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. NOTES. VER. 164. Jla/hlng Bentley]... | |
| 1764 - 198 pages
...Preferv'd 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 ! The things we know,...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 pages
...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 man's I'eeret ftandard in his mind, That Calling-weight pride adds to envptii,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 pages
...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 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 414 pages
...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...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... | |
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