 | English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...nature waits upon his hand; When the ripe colours foften and unite, And fweetly melt into juft ftiade and light, When mellowing years their full perfection...art betray, And all the bright creation fades away! Unhappy wit, like moft miftaken things, Atones not for that envy which it brings. In youth alone its... | |
 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 392 pages
...ripe Colours fof'ten and unite, And fweetly melt into juft Shade and Light, When mellowing Time docs full Perfection give,; And each bold Figure juft begins to live; The treach'rous Colours in few Years decay, And all the bright Creation fades away ! Be Niggards of Advice on no Pretence;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 240 pages
...benign, and then — fv'a thofe Clouds at laji adorn its ivay^ RtfltQ new glories, and augmtnt-tht day. Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready...perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, 49 1 The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...Nature waits upon his hand; When the ripe colours foften and unite, And fweetly melt into juft fliade and light ; When mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, . 49 1 The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy... | |
 | Christopher Smart - English poetry - 1752 - 264 pages
...76 An ESSAY on CRITICISM, When the ripe colours /often and unite, And fvveetly melt into juft fhade and light, When mellowing years their full perfection...live, The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, 495 And all the bright creation fades away. Unhappy wit, like moft miftaken things, Attones not for... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...upon his hand ; When the ripe colours foften and unite, And fweetly melt into jufl made and light j When mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, 401 The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy Wit,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...his hand ; When the ripe colours foften and unite, And fweetly melt into juft fhade and light ; Where mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, The treacherous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away. * I HAVE quoted thefe... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 316 pages
...fhall Dryden be. So when the faithful pencil has defign'd Some bright Idea of the mafter's mind, 485 Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready...perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, 491 The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy Wit,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 314 pages
...Nature waits upon his hand ; When the ripe colours foften and unite, And fweetly melt into juft fhade and light; When mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, 491 The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy Wit,... | |
 | Nathan Bailey - 1760 - 730 pages
...fre/hnefs, or appearance of blood in the face : 3. the tint of the painter. When each bold figure jull begins to live. The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation rades away. Ptfc's Eß~. Crit. COLOUR, i« defined to be the different modifications of the rays of... | |
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Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready Nature waits upon his hand; When the ripe colours soften and unite, And sweetly melt into just shade and light; When mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure just begins to... 
