 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1853 - 126 pagina’s
...been its history, affords an excellent illustration of Pope's well known and often quoted lines, — " 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." 223. HEBREW... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pagina’s
...syllables, Even such small critics, some regard may claim, Preserved in Milton's or in Shakespear's name. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, 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... | |
 | 1856 - 506 pagina’s
...means, why this is here rather than that; yet we recognise the details as excerpts from nature — " 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."• In nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pagina’s
...syllables, Even 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 ! iro The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pagina’s
...syllables, Even 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 ! 170 The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were... | |
 | William Maginn - 1856 - 372 pagina’s
...Pope's, it must make part of every edition of his works ; for, as some of his happiest lines tell us : " 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... | |
 | Ernest Adams - 1858 - 200 pagina’s
...— Id. 511. When the verb be is the copula of a proposition, it is frequently omitted in poetry : Pretty in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms. Pope. Sweet the hum Of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds, The lisp of children, and their... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 pagina’s
...E'en such small critics some regard may claim, Preserv'd 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pagina’s
...syllables, Even 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 they POSSIBLY got there. Were others... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pagina’s
...E'en such small critics some regard may claim. Preserved in Milton's or in Shakspeare's name. Prerty ! 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, Cut wonder how the devil they g< t 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. 
