 | George Field - Artists' materials - 1841 - 458 pages
...imagination boast, Amid her gay creation, hues like these ? What hand can mix them with that matchless shill, And lay them on so delicately fine, And lose them...in each other, as appears In every bud that blows?" Yet, by following Nature assiduously, the artist has power not only to approach, but to give permanence... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1841 - 352 pages
...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 1 If Fancy, then, Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task, Ah! what shall language do? ah! where find... | |
 | Joshua Horner - Art - 1841 - 162 pages
...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 ? The descent from this elevated situation to the Lake of Geneva was soon accomplished. Passing, in... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...imagination boast. Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, ht nymph! to mourn thy rev ish'd hair, Which adds new glory to the shining sphere ! No fails beneath the pleasing task, Ah, what shall language do ? ah, where find words Ting'd with so many... | |
 | John Sims - Botany - 1833 - 368 pages
...Work. " Wlio can paint Like Nature ? Can Imagination boast Amid his gay creation, hues like these, And lay them on so delicately fine, And lose them in each other ?" LONDON : Printed by Edward Coachman, in, Throgmorton Street; FOR THE PROPRIETOR, SAMUEL CURTIS,... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1847 - 876 pages
...produced in the vegetable world. " But who can paint Like Nature ? can imagination boast, Amidst his guy creation, hues like hers? And lay them on so delicately...fine, And lose them in each other, as appears In every hud that blows ? — If fancy then, Unequal, fail beneath the pleasing task, Ah ! what shall language... | |
 | Thomas Winter - Floriculture - 1847 - 362 pages
...imagination boast, Amidst this gay creation, hues like hers? And can he mix them with that matchless skill, And lay them on so delicately fine, And lose them...In every bud that blows ? If fancy then, Unequal, fails beneath the pleasing task, Oh ! what can language do." This beautiful plant is a native of South... | |
 | James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? 47p Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows ? If fancy, then, Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task, Ah, what shall language do ? ah, where find words 475 Ting'd with... | |
 | Eliza W. Smith - 1848 - 254 pages
...imagination boast Amid its gay creation, hues like these 1 Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blooms 1 If fancy then Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task, Ah ! what shall language do 1 " ©WIN!... | |
 | Robert Holden Webb, William Higgins Coleman - 1849 - 462 pages
...imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lay them on so delicately fine, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows ? THOMSOS. EPILOBIUM. Willow Herb. LINN. CL. viii. ORD. i. NAME. A compound of «« (epi), upon, and... | |
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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... 
