...Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things we know are neither rich nor rare, 171 But wonder how the devil they got there. Were others...their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; But each man's secret standard in his mind, That easting-weight pride adds to eniptincss. This, who...

...wonder how the devil they got there. Went others angry : I excus'd them too ; Well might they rnge, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find ; But eaeh man's secret standard in his mind, That casting-weight pride adds to emptiness, This, who...

...tax'd, and beaten, is the «/««/. Cra«v. 4. A kind of expletive, cxpr.fl-.ng wonder or vexati°nThe things, we know, are neither rich nor rare; But wonder how the devil they got theie . .1 'of. ,. A kind of ludicrous negative in an adveibial fenfeThe devil was well, the Avil a...

...PROLOGUE TO SAT. 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 came there. MARTIAL. VI. 15. Dum Phaetontea formica vagatur in umbri Implicuit tenuem succina gutta...

...cannot help regarding these coroneted insects, like the worms embalmed in amber, described by Pope : " The things we know, are neither rich nor rare, * But wonder how the devil they got thete."' And when we see others of our nobility sneaking about under armorial degradation, from town...

...Shakspeare's name. Pretty ! in amher to ohserve the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or gruhs, or worms ! The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they gut there. The hard whom pilfer'd pastorals renown, Who torns a Persian tale for half a erown ; Just...

...Shakspeare's name. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of bain, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! structive blow ; And wasted man, whose quick decay Comes hurrying on before his day, cxcus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard...

...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...

...Sbakspeare'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...how the devil they got there. Were others angry: I excused them too; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard...

...vitam agere decrevi." Whereupon, says my author, he quitted the converse of men, threw himself into The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. NOTES. the thickest of a forest, and wore out the wretched remainder of his life in all the agonies...