 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...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...too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their dae. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find; But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 pages
...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...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 - 1872 - 168 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...constrains our will. It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Pretty in amber to observe the forms Of hair, mischief they got there ! Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Curst be the verse, how well... | |
 | 1874 - 870 pages
...refers to this substance, which is one of the most ancient of ornaments, in the following lines : — Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or...nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Rings, which are now looked on merely as ornaments, without meaning, except in the cases of the wedding... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 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 ahout a meaning; And he whose fustian 's so sublimely bad,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1874 - 764 pages
...this substance, which is one of the most ancient of ornaments, in the following lines: — ' Pretty 1 in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws...nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." Rings, which are now looked on merely as ornaments, without meaning, except in the cases of the wedding... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1875 - 748 pages
...and 59). Ev'n email critics some rcgnrd may claim, Presenr'd in Milton's or in Shakespeare's name. Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or...nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. As cognate to Martial's epigram, some lines by James Montgomery may be quoted: " The Gnat; written... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 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,... | |
 | 1875 - 852 pages
...rare exceptions," we may apply to then) the description Pope gives of refuse preserved iu amber : — forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms;...nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there/" 1875.] A LEGEND OF THE TALMUD. The Talmnd relates: — " How Abraham first came to worship in the midst... | |
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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. 
