 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1888 - 388 pages
...is a species of vituperation, where the personifying words are used to give brevity and compactness. But who can paint Like Nature ? Can imagination boast,...creation, hues like hers? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every hud that blows ? 8. II. Attributing... | |
 | Home economics - 1888 - 654 pages
...largely the physical, mental, moral and spiritual character of their child. —DariJ N. Patterson, MD WHO can paint Like nature? Can imagination boast,...creation, hues like hers? Or can it mix them with the matchless skill, And love them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows ? — Thomson.... | |
 | John Wilson - Trees - 1889 - 206 pages
...herself is touched with a finer delicacy of colour, or recalls more vividly the words of THOMSON — " But who can paint Like nature ? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creations, hues like hers? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other... | |
 | Charles Alden John Farrar - Maine - 1890 - 372 pages
...moment, and is then obscured by its mantle of green. "Behold, yon breathing prospect bids the muse Throw all her beauty forth. But who can paint Like Nature...imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?" built of logs and plank, with a protecting rail along the sides. The view of the stream at some of... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1891 - 458 pages
...All but the swellings of the softened heart, That waken, not disturb, the tranquil mind. 465 Throw all her beauty forth. But who can paint Like Nature...creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, 470 And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows ? If fanqy... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1891 - 458 pages
...That waken, not disturb, the tranquil mind. 465 Throw all her beauty forth. But who can paint Mr ] Like Nature ? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, 470 And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows ? If fancy... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...pleasing dread they swell the SOU II That sees astouish'd ! and astonish 'd sings! Thomson. HUES OF. Who can paint Like nature? can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like her's? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every... | |
 | William Paul - Gardening - 1892 - 596 pages
...brilliancy, and what delicacy of hue, pervade the assembled mass ! Well may we exclaim as we admire — " Who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast Amid...creation hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows ?" The interest... | |
 | Oliver Rivington Willis - Botany - 1894 - 380 pages
...with such prominent examples of Nature's beauties, and feels what the poet felt when he wrote : — " But who can paint Like Nature ? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers 1 Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bnd... | |
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But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows... 
