 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 286 页
...in Milton's or in Skakefpear's name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know,...neither rich 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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 288 页
...in Milton's or in Sbakefpear's name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know,...neither rich 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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 278 页
...Milton's or in -Sha&efpear's name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms 169 Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know,...neither rich 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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 272 页
...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, 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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 360 页
...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 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.... | |
 | 1764 - 198 页
...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 ! The things we know,...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 页
...AIi//s,i's. or in Sh. tr!fe.ir's name. Pretty ! in amber to 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 414 页
...name. Pretty ! in amber to obferve the forms Of hairs, or ftraws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 170 The things we know are neither rich 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.... | |
 | Patrick Brydone - 1780 - 248 页
...feet above the level of the fea. They are of the commoneft kinds, cockles, muffels, oyfters, &c. " The things we 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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1785 - 518 页
...account of the verfe* themfelves. As Pope fays of ftraw and grubs in amber, ' We know thefe things are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they came tl.ere.' The poems before us are entitled to a fuperior degree of praife ; there are evident traces... | |
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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. 
