 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...numbers, for the numbers came. Line 127. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms, Of hairs, or straws, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither...nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Line 169. And he whose fustian 's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Line 187.... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor - 1869 - 412 pages
...found in amber — " Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or ffrubs, or worms : The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there j" so we marvel at double eggs ! It seems as if one had swallowed the other ! Yet we believe the phenomenon... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...statnes, or breathless stones, Star'd on each other, and look'd deadly pale. «mnITB Sh. Ric. nl. in. 7. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or...nor rare. But wonder how the devil they got there. Pope, Up, to Arb. AMBITION— see Fame, Glory, Pride. [169. Raleigh. Fain would I climb, but that I... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...he gdds beloved) at sixteen or seventeen years of Age ; an early period for such acquaintance'. ' * Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, ye know, are neither rich nor rare. But wonder now the devil they got there. Were others angry: I excused... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...Line 91. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. Line 127. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or...nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Line 169. Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian 's so sublimely bad,... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...Liuegi. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. Lme 127. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms, Of hairs,...nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Line 169. And he whose fustian 's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Line 187.... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1869 - 436 pages
...a very different poetry from that which Pope elaborated from them in his well-known simile : — ' Pretty in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or...know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the mischief they got there !' Fossil insects occur in both the Secondary and Palaeozoic divisions, but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...name3. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms 4 ! 1 70 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... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...regard may claim, Preserv'd in Milton's or in Shakespeare's name. Pretty I in amber to observe the forma Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms !...nor rare. But wonder how the devil they got there. As cognate to Mnrtial's epigram, some lines by James Montgomery may be quoted : " The Gnat ; written... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...syllables, Even such small critics some regard may claim, Preserved in Milton's or in Shakespeare's name. AULAY. BRUCE AND THE SPIDER. FOR Scotland's and for...fight Been conquered and dismayed ; Once more agui The bard whom pilfered pastorals renown, Who turns a Persian tale for half a crown, Just writes to... | |
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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. 
