| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 pagina’s
...syllables. Yet e'en this creature may some notice claim, Wrapt round and sanctified with Shakespeare's name. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms I The thing, we know, is neither rich nor rare ; And wonder how the devil it got there. Are others... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 pagina’s
...syllables. Yet e'en this creature may some notice claim, Wrapt round and sanctified with Shakespeare's name. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms I The thing, we know, is neither rich nor rare ; And wonder how the devil it got there. Are others... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pagina’s
...stones, Star'd on each other, and look'd deadly pale. 108 Shaks.: Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7. AMBER. 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. 109 Pope :... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pagina’s
...Translation. I saw a flic within a beade Of amber cleanly buried. Herrick, On a Fly buried in Ambtr. Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or prubs, or worms ! Pope, Jfyittlt to Dr. Arbuthnot, Lint 1G9. 2 Often the cockloft is empty, in those... | |
| Titbits - 1884 - 378 pagina’s
...of vegetation. It is to this that Pope humorously alludes in his " Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot " :— 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 d — 1 they got there. Amber comes... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 480 pagina’s
...syllables. Yet e'en this creature may some notice claim, Wrapt round and sanctified with Shakespeare's name. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The thing, we know, is neither rich nor rare ; And wonder how the devil it got there. Each man's... | |
| James McQuade - 1884 - 572 pagina’s
...won't be good, but that you can make any will excite surprise. They will be like flies in amber. " ' 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.' " " Mercy,... | |
| William Maginn - 1885 - 402 pagina’s
...matter, but presented in a manner so confused as to render consulting them a work of no small puzzle. ' ' 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." But it... | |
| William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pagina’s
...syllables, Even such small critics some regard may claim, Preserved in Milton's or in Shakespeare-'s name.2 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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