| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 288 pages
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, 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 excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. As man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 pages
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, 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 excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. As man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 pages
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, 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 excus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. As man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1752 - 434 pages
...i foi the m oft deleft able things in nature, The things we know, are neither rich nor rare, 1 7 1 But wonder how the devil they got there. Were others angry : I excus'd them too j Well might they rage, I gave them but their due, A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1754 - 278 pages
...frigidnm, intc«4um eiiam facetum.'*Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms '• ' Of hairs, orftraws,or dirt, or grubs, or worms! 170 The things we know,...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 - English literature - 1757 - 272 pages
...facetui^ ,, Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms 1 170 The things we know, are neither rich nor rare,...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 - English poetry - 1760 - 360 pages
...foreft, and wore out the wretched remainder of his life in all the agonies of defpair. Cl 24 PROLOGUE The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But...how the devil they got there. Were others angry ; I excus'd them too j Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. NOTES. VER. 164. Jla/hlng Bentley]... | |
| Literature - 1764 - 198 pages
...Shakefpear's name. Pretty in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there *. • Verfe 167. The The imagery in thefe lines is exceffive]y beautiful, the fatire poignant to the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...ooferve the lorms Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ( The things we know are neither lich nor rare, But wonder 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 hai'd... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 pages
...Preferv'd in Milton's or in Shakefpear's name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! 170 The things we know...rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were Were others angry : I excus'd them too ; Well might they rage; I gave them but their due. ^ A man's... | |
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