 Some bright idea of the master's mind, 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,...  Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature - Page xiiby Robert Aris Willmott - 1851 - 301 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1749 - 110 pages
...Nature waits upon his hand ; When the ripe colours foften and unite, And fweetiy melt into juft (hade and light, When mellowing years their full perfeftion give, And each bold figure juft begins to live ; 49i NOTES. 3> 4?4 So when the and the manners defcribed, faithful pencil, £gY.] This let us into... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...and unite, And fweetly melt into juft fhade and light ; Where mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, The...art betray, And all the bright creation fades away. * I HAVE quoted thefe beautiful lines at lenth, as I believe nothing was ever fo happily exprefled... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 pages
...Fenton's edit. pag. 147. I zmo. When AND WRITINGS OF POPE. 153 When mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, The...art betray, And all the bright creation fades away *. I HAVE quoted thefe beautiful lines at length, as I believe nothing was ever fo happily exprefled... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...nature waits upon his hand"; When the ripe colours foften and unite, And fweetly. melt into juft fhade and light, When mellowing years their full perfeftion...give, And each bold figure juft begins to live ; The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away ! 40,5 Unhappy Wit,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 412 pages
...unite, And fweetly melt into juft fhade and light; \Vhen mellowing years their full perfeftion give, 490 And each bold figure juft begins to live, The treacherous...art betray, And all the bright creation fades away! Unhappy wit, like moft miftaken things, Atones not for that envy which it brings, 455 In youth alone... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 400 pages
...unite, And fweetly melt into juft made and light ; When mellowing years their full perfeftion give, 490 And each bold figure juft begins to live, The treacherous colours the fair art betray, f*, • And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy wit, like moft miftaken things, Atones not... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1772 - 374 pages
...And each bold figure juft begins to live, •Of ENGLISH VERSE. Fenton's edit. p. 147. tamo. " ' The The treacherous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away *. I HAVE quoted thefe beautiful lines at length, as I believe nothing was ever more happily exprefled... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...upon his hand ; W^hen the ripe colours foften and unite, And fweetly melt into juft (hade and light f When mellowing years their full perfeftion give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, 491 The treach'rous colours the fair art betray l And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy... | |
 | John Walker - 1799 - 438 pages
...and unite, And f weedy melt into juft (hade and light ; When mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live ; The...art betray , And all the bright creation fades away, Paff's EJJ~ay on Crlt. <vir, 484^ In this example we find every particular, except the laft but one... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
..."Fenton's edit. p. 147. 12mo. 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.* I have quoted these beautiful lines at length, as I believe nothing was ever more happily expressed... | |
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