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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. "
A Grammatical Corrector, Or, Vocabulary of the Common Errors of Speech ... - Pagina 39
door Seth T. Hurd - 1848 - 124 pagina’s
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters ..., Volume 13

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...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift ... Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and ...

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...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets

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 :...
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Familiar quotations [compiled] by J. Bartlett. Author's ed

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...
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1,000 answers to 1,000 questions, a reprint of the first (-sixth) 1,000 ...

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...
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The Works, Volume 13

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...
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The Cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, the West Indies and Florida

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,...
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Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, Volume 2

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...
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Swinton's First [-sixth] Reader, Boek 6

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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A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from ..., Volume 10

Henry Louis Mencken - 1942 - 1376 pagina’s
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