 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...the book. Julius's answer (as it stands in his collection of letters) is, that if the engraver could Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 1 70 NOTES. could collect together the several graces of Masinissa, Xenophon, and Plato, he might... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 498 pages
...the book. Julius's answer (as it stands in his collection of letters) is, that if the engraver could Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! 170 NOTES. could collect together the several graces of Masinissa, Xenophon, and Plato, he might then... | |
 | Jacques Delille - English poetry - 1824 - 474 pages
...syllables, E'en such small critics some regard may claim, Preserv'd in Milton's or in 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 pages
...the book. Julius's answer (as it stands in his collection of letters) is, that if the engraver could Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 170 NOTES. could collect together the several graces of Masinissa, Xenophon, and Plato, he might... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...E'en such small critics some regard may claim, Preserved in Milton's or in Shakspeare's name. Pretty I 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...Ev'n sueh small erities some regard may elaim, Preserv'd in Milton's or in Shakspeare's name. Pretty I e eheerful haunt of men and herds. And sits as safe as in a senate-house ; ! The things we know are neither rieh nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were others... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...syllables, Ev'n such small critics some regard may claim, Preserved in Milton's or in Shakspeare's name. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grabs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 590 pages
...forcibly of a somewhat different use, which one of our best poets has made of the same image : — " 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, &c. &c." In estimating the merits of... | |
 | English drama - 1826 - 372 pages
...proportion ! Nonsense, thus introduced, is the " grubs," and " straws" of the satirist — " Pretty 1 in amber to observe the forms " Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms I " The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, " But wonder how the devil they got there !» Of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...syllables, E'en such small critics some regard may claim, Preserved in Milton's or in 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 wonder how the devil they got there. Were others... | |
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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. 
