 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...  An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope - Page 144by Joseph Warton - 1756Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...into just shade and light ; When mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure just begins to live, The treacherous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away! Unhappy wit, like most mistaken things, Atones not for that envy which it brings : In yonth alone its... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...into just shade and lightWhen mellowing years their full perfection 'give. And each bold figure just begins to live; The treacherous colours the fair art betray, * And all the bright creatioa fades away ! Unhappy wit, like most mistaken things, Atones not for that envy which it brings;... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...into just shade and light ; When mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figurejust begins to live ; The treacherous colours the fair...art betray, And all the bright creation fades away. Pope's Essay on Cr'tt. ver. 48-!. In this example we find every particular, except the last but one... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...*<<.. When mellowing years their ftill perfection give, And each bold figure just begins to live; [490 The treacherous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy wit, like most mistaken things, Atom* not for that envy which it brings; 495 In youth alone... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...mellowing years their full perfection give, 490 and each bold figure just begins to live; the treach'rous colours the fair art betray, and all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy wit, like most mistaken things, atones not for that envy which it brings ; 495 in youth alone... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure just begins to live, 491 The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy wit, like most mistaken things, Atones not for that envy which it brings. 495 In youth alone... | |
 | Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 pages
...mellowing years thejr full perfection give, And each bold figure just begins to live, 491 The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy wit, like most mistaken things, Atones not for that envy which it brings. 495. In youth alone... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...mellowing years their full perfection give, 400 And each bold figure just begins to live, The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away ! Uuhappy wit, like most mistaken things, Atones not for that envy which it brings : 495 In youth alone... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 778 pages
...fled. Drji. 3. The tint of the painter.— When each bold figure jufl begins to live, The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away. Pope. 4. The representation of any thing fuperficially examined. — Their wifdom is only of this world,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...just slia«le and light' ; When mellowing years their lull perfection give], And each bold figure just begins to live' ; The treacherous colours the fair...betray, And all' the bright' creation' fades' away'. EXERCISES on the SERIES. 1. Ambition creates hatred, shyness, discords, seditions, and wars. ? To be... | |
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