| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...syllables, E'en such small critics some regard may claim, Preserv'd 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... | |
| Jonathan BIRD - Bible - 1863 - 384 pages
...possess a deeper interest, and we may apply to them the graceful and appreciative lines of Pope : ' 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 mischief they got there !... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1865 - 446 pages
...suggestive of a very different poetry from that which Pope elaborated from them in his well-known simile: " 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 mischief they got there! " Fossil... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...Line 91. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. Line 127. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms, Of hairs, or straws, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got... | |
| Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor - Natural history - 1869 - 412 pages
...apple got into the midst of a seamless dumpling; as Pope marveEed at the trifles found in amber — " Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or ffrubs, or worms : The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...he gdds beloved) at sixteen or seventeen years of Age ; an early period for such acquaintance'. ' * Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, ye know, are neither rich nor rare. But wonder now the devil they got there. Were others... | |
| Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...statnes, or breathless stones, Star'd on each other, and look'd deadly pale. «mnITB Sh. Ric. nl. in. 7. 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. Pope, Up,... | |
| Edward Duffield Neill - Education - 1867 - 128 pages
...ornaments made of Bermudas' products ; and exclaim, in substance, as in later years the poet Pope : ' ' Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or worms." long black hair down their shoulders. On the stage was an Island of rocks and caves, and Pint... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...Line 91. As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. Line 127. 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. Line 169.... | |
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