| G. Proctor, George Procter - 1823 - 426 páginas
...among my lucubrations, and thus give him that immortality which the commentators on Shakspeare enjoy. " The things we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there." THE DAY OF BADAJOS. ' " Now speak, old soldier, The height of honour ?" " Rather to suffer than to... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1824 - 474 páginas
...Shakespeare'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...how the devil they got there. Were others angry : I excused them too; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824 - 406 páginas
...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...how the devil they got there. Were others angry : I excused them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 494 páginas
...word-catchers. That the GENIUS, or rather fhe professors of PHILOLOGY are deservedly characterized by the name The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. NOTES. name of ribalds, is a strange assertion for a commentator who has devoted so considerable a... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 páginas
...word-catchers. That the GENIUS, or rather the professors of PHILOLOGY are deservedly characterized by the name The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there. NOTES. name of ribalds, is a strange assertion for a commentator who has devoted so considerable a... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 498 páginas
...to further, The murderous critic has avenged thy murder." Bowla. This Were others angry: I excused them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. NOTES. This epigram is rendered quite unintelligible in Mr. Bowles's edition, by a misprint in the... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...Shakspeare's name. Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grabs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But...how the devil they got there. Were others angry, I excused them too; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 páginas
...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...how the devil they got there. Were others angry : I excused them too: Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things we know are neither rieh ife be tied to law, But joy'd weak women's hearts to tempt and prove, If exeus'd them too ; Well might they rage, I gave them but their due. A man's true merit 'tis not hard... | |
| 1826 - 372 páginas
...— " Pretty 1 in amber to observe the forms " Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms I " The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, " But wonder how the devil they got there !» Of the vocal performers, we have to speak in terms of unqualified praise. Mr. Braham sang the airs... | |
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