| William Lisle Bowles - 1826 - 175 páginas
...among the intelligent, enlightened, and splendid articles of the Quarterly Review ! — 119 " Such things, we know, are neither rich nor rare; "But wonder how the devil they came there !" Pope. But in fact, notwithstanding all this mysterious concealment, I pretty well guess... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1827 - 400 páginas
...by the royal supporters. A lion, an unicorn, and a king on such an eminence are very surprising :* The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. He also rebuilt some part of All-Souls College,-^ Oxford, the two towers over the gate of which are... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 páginas
...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...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... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 606 páginas
...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... | |
| Rowland Dobie - 1829 - 472 páginas
...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... | |
| 1829 - 612 páginas
...elucidated by Urydone, 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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
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