 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 550 pages
...which he is reported to have bioke out — " Quodnam ego tantum fcclus concepi, O Chriite ! qucm ego The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were NOTES. tgo tuorum unquain Ixfi, ut ita inexpiabili in me odio debaccheri:. ? .Audi ea qure tibi mentis... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - 1806 - 422 pages
...level of the fea. They are of the commoneft kinds, cockles, muffels, oyfters, &c. " The things \ve 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, Bat wonder how the devil they got there. Were others angry...their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This who... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...Shakspcare's name. Pretty! in amher 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 e*cus'd them too; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...bairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The thing;, we know, are neither rich nor rare, Bat wonder how the devil they got there. • < Were others...too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their doe. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...Shakespeare's name. 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. Were others angry: 1 excus'd then too; Wcll might they rage, I gave them bat their due. . A man's true merit 'tis not... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...Shakspeare's name. 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...their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness. This who... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...Sbakspe.tr's name. 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...their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; But each man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to cmptinens, This who... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...Nhaktpfarc's name. Pretty '. in amber to oLsuvc the forms Of hairs or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! a th«in too ; Well might they Mge, I gave them but their due. A man^s tn.e merit 'tis not hard to find... | |
 | John Opie - 1809 - 312 pages
...obtruded on the spectator, on the most solemn occasions, as the principal objects in the piece ! ! ! " The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there ! " With all these defects, such are the powers displayed in their works, that many of those of a confessedly... | |
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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. 
