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
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...modest cheek shall warm a future age. POPE. When each bold figure just begins to live, The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away. POPE. Oh, lasting as those colours may they shine ! Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line.... | |
| Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 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. Pope, Essay on Criticism. PORTRAIT PAINTING. LIKENESS is ever there ; but still the best, Like proper... | |
| Charles John Plumptre - Elocution - 1881 - 524 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. 8. Of systems possible, if 'tis confess'd That wisdom infinite must form the best, Where all must fall,... | |
| 1847 - 778 pages
...fresh shade and light.— When hallowing years their full perception gire, And each bold figure just begins to live, The treacherous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away." Experience answers the poet. But if the life of one of the Sisters be more brief, it is not less attractive.... | |
| Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1888 - 532 pages
...Turner was conspicuous in his colour, " the light that never was on sea or shore," but " The trcach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away. " How few of the works of genius comprise the several elements of greatness of size, universal recognition,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 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 youth alone... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1893 - 176 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...mellowing years their full perfection give, .(go 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. In youth alone... | |
| Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 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. In youth alone... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1896 - 136 pages
...just shade and light ; When mellowing years their full perfection give, 490 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 youth alone... | |
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