 | Horace Walpole - 1827 - 400 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 the devil they got there. Were others... | |
 | 1829 - 612 oldal
...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... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 606 oldal
...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 oldal
...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 oldal
...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 oldal
...small critics some regard msy claim. Preserved in Milton's or in Shakspeare's name Pretty ! in amber / ! The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. Were others... | |
 | Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1831 - 364 oldal
...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... | |
 | 1844 - 630 oldal
...leave their larder. All these Beem out of place — unnatural means to the end — " The things we see are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." From my fondness for spaniels, the infinite pains I have taken in the breeding and breaking, and the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 498 oldal
...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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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? 
