THIS verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse This from no venal or ungrateful Muse. Whether thy hand strike out some free design, Where life awakes, and dawns at every line, Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass, And from the canvas call the... The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette - Page 161830Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...refufe •*• This, from no venal or ungrateful Mufe. Whether thy hand ftrike out fome free defign, Where Life awakes, and dawns at every line ; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mafs, 5 And from the canvas call the mimic face: Read thefe inftruftive leaves, in which confpire... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 414 pages
...refufc •*• This, from no venal or ungrateful Mufe. Whether thy hand ftrike out fome free defign, Where Life awakes, and dawns at every line ; Or blend in beauteous tinfs the colour'd mafs, 5 And from the canvas call the mimic face: Read thefe inftruftive leaves,... | |
| Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy - Art - 1783 - 248 pages
...nor thou refufc This, from no venal or ungrateful Mufe. Whether thy hand ftrike out fome free defign, Where life awakes, and dawns at every line; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mafs, And from the canvas call the mimic face : Read thefe inftrudtive leaves, in which confpire... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...ungrateful muse. Whether thy hand strike out some free design, Where life awakes, and dawns at ev'ry line; Or blend in beauteous tints the coloured mass,...call the mimic face: Read these instructive leaves, in which conspire Fresnoy's close art, and Dry den's native fire; And reading wish, like theirs, our... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...nor thou refufe This, from no venal or ungrateful Mufe. Whether thy hand ftrike out fome free defign, Where Life awakes, and dawns at every line; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mafs, " 5 And from the canvafs call the mimic face: Read thefe inftruftive leaves, in which... | |
| 1794 - 918 pages
...nor thou refufc This, from no venal or ungrateful mufe. Whether thy hand ftrike out fomc free dcfign, Where life awakes, and dawns at every line ; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd m»f«, And from tht canvifs call the mimic face: Read thefe inftruSivc leaves, in which confpire... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...nor thou refufe This, from no venal or ungrateful mufe. Whether thy hand flrike out fome free defign, •Where life awakes, and dawns at every line ; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mafs, And from th* canvafs call the mimic face : Read thefe inftrunive leaves, in which confpire... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1798 - 394 pages
...MR. DRYDpN*. THIS verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse This, from no venal or ungrateful Muse. Whether thy hand strike out some free design, Where...dawns at every line; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass, And from the canvas call the mimic face: Read these instructive leaves, in which conspire... | |
| Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - Art - 1801 - 388 pages
...DRYDEN*. JL HIS verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse This, from no venal or ungrateful Muse. Whether thy hand strike out some free design, Where...dawns at every line; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass, And from the canvas call the mimic face: Read these instructive leaves, in which conspire... | |
| sir Joshua Reynolds - 1801 - 392 pages
...DRYDEN*. J. HIS verse be thine, my friend, nor them refuse This, from no venal or ungrateful Muse. Whether thy hand strike out some free design, Where...dawns at every line; Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass, And from the canvas call the mimic face : Read these instructive leaves, in which conspire... | |
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