 | Rowland Dobie - 1829 - 472 pages
...hugged by the royal supporters. A lion, a unicorn, and a king on such an eminence is very surprising ; The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." — Walpole. The author of " a new Critical Review of the Public Buildings," before quoted, speaks... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 606 pages
...elucidated by Brydone, on Etna, in the lines of Pope, on an occasion, too, not dissimilar to the present. ' The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." They offer, indeed, many interesting suggestions relative to the antiquity of our globe, and corroborate... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...fortune, and all, in that which wickedly and dteiliMy those impostors called the cause of God. &mtk. The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare ; But wonder how the demi they got there ! Pope. With all these tokens of a knave complete, If thou art honest, thou 'it... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Shakspeare's name Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! / excused them too ; Well might they rage : I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
 | Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1831 - 364 pages
...has said, Pretty in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, and straws, and dirt, and grubs, and worms; The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. If the authority of another poet may be admitted, Martial has removed the wonder. He tells us, in three... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 498 pages
...Lepidus" of this poetical triumvirate. I am only surprised to see him in such good company. *' Such things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil he came there." The trio arc well defined in the sixth proposition of Euclid : *« Because, in the... | |
 | 1844 - 630 pages
...leave their larder. All these Beem out of place — unnatural means to the end — " The things we see are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." From my fondness for spaniels, the infinite pains I have taken in the breeding and breaking, and the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832 - 384 pages
...Lepidus" of this poetical triumvirate. I am only surprised to see him in such good company. " Such things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil In. came there." The trio are well defined in the sixth proposition of Euclid : " Because, in the triangles... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832 - 394 pages
...Lepidus" of this poetical triumvirate. I am only surprised to see him in such good company. " Such things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil he came there." The trio are well defined in the sixth proposition of Euclid : " Because, in the triangles... | |
 | 1832 - 638 pages
...nœmejî pitain i £б. SOíajefUít Äongcnö ^Regiment. Oír. 2. ' rjJHottO: Were others angry; I excuse them too; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. Pope.] Ajebenfyewiu Sotlagt of Untoetjitít«í £. Я. SKei|íI. 1832, 67 ©. 8, ;Д ogle QJttringer... | |
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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. 
