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" Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure... "
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical Observations on ... - Page 82
by Samuel Johnson - 1783
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The Works of the English Poets: Cowley

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 514 pages
...from the ikies, Where the moft fpritely azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with ftarry vapours ipangles all, Took in their prime, ere they grow ripe and fall...new rainbow, ere it fret or fade, The choiceft piece took out, a fcarf is made i Small ftrearQJng clouds he does for wings difplay, Not virtuo(!s ]0vers'...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...; He cuts out a- filk mantle from the fkies, Where the mofl fpritely azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with ftarry vapours fprinkles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall; K4 C' Of a n.£w .rainbow, ere it .(ret or fade, The choicerl piece cutout, a fcarfe is made. This...
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The Works of the English Poets: Cowley

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 418 pages
...; This he with ftarry vapours fpangles all, 805 Took in their prime, ere they grow ripe and fall i Of a new rainbow, ere it fret or fade, The choiceft piece took out, a fcarf is made i Small ftreammg clouds he does for wings difplay, Not virtuous lovers' fighs...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 39-40

John Bell - English poetry - 1784 - 534 pages
...ikies, Where the moft fprightly azure pleas'd the eyes; This he with ftarry vapours fpangles all, 805 Took in their prime ere they grow ripe, and fall : Of a new rainhow, ere it fret or fade, The ehoieeft pieee took out, a fearf is made ; Small ftreaming elouds...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...filk mantle from the fkes, Where the moft fprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This This he with ftany vapours fprinkles all, Took in their prime ere they...imagery : what might in general expreffions be great and foreible, he weakens and makes ridiculous by branching it into fmall pares. That Gabriel was invefted...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...He cuts out a filk mantle from the fltei, Where the moft fprightly azure ple«s'd tlie eyes. ; This he with ftarry vapours fprinkles all, Took in their...out, a fcarfe is made, This is a juft fpecimen of Cowley*s imagery : what / *might in general expreffions be great and forcible, he weakens and makes...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...; He cuts out a filk mantle from the fkics, "Where the moft fprightly azure pleas'd the eyes; This he with ftarry vapours fprinkles all, Took in their...made. This is a juft fpecimen of Cowley's imagery: what"might in general expreffions be great and forcible, he weakens and makes ridiculous by branching...
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Observations on Pope

Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pages
...indebted for the original conception to Cowley, David. ii. 807. This he with ftarry vapours fpangles all, Took in their prime, ere they grow ripe and fall...rainbow, ere it fret or fade , The choiceft piece took out, the fcarf is made. The whole context there from ver. 793. to ver. 812. is highly worthy of...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...skies, Where the most sprightly arure pleas'd the eyes: This he with starry vapours sprinkles al), Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall ; Of a new rainbow ere it fret or fade, The choicest piece cut out, a scarfe is made. is a just specimen of Cowley's imagery: what might in general...
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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...pfc cats out a filk mantfe From the -fkies, Where the moft fprightly azure pleas'd the eyei ; * This he with ftarry vapours fprinkles all, Took in their...and fall ; Of a new rainbow ere it fret or Fade, The chpiceft piece cut out, a fcarfe is made. This is a juft fpecimen of Cowley's imagery: what might in...
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