 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...  Pleasures of Literature - Page 9by Robert Aris Willmott - 1860 - 231 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live; The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away! Unhappy wit, like moft miftaken things, Atones not for that envy which it brings. In youth alone its... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...years their full perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, . 49 1 The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy Wit, like moft miftaken things, Atones not for. that envy which it brings. 495 In youth alone... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 240 pages
...mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, 49 1 The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy Wit, like moft miftaken things, Atones not for that envy which it brings. 495 In youth alone... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, 401 The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy Wit, like moft miftakeu things, Atones not for that envy which it brings. 495 NOTES. VER.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...mellowing years their full perfeftion give, 490 And each bold figure juft begins to live, The treach'ifous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away! Unhappy Wit, like mof t miftaken things, Atones not for that envy which it brings. 495 In youth alone... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 pages
...juft fhade and light ; Where mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, The treacherous colours the fair 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...mellowing years their foil perfection give, And each bold figure j.uft begins to live, 49,i Thetreach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away! Unhappy Wit, like moft miftaken things, Atones not for that envy which it brings. 495 NOTES. VEK. 484.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 316 pages
...mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, 491 The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away ! Unhappy Wit, like moft miftaken things, Atones not for that envy which it brings. 495 \ » NOTES.... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 pages
...AND WRITINGS OF POPE. 153 When mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure juft begins to live, 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 fo happily exprefled... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...years their full j erfeflion, " give, .*' And each bold figure juft begins to live, " The treach'rous colours the fair art betray, " And all the bright creation fades away !'* Nothing, as the eflayift candidly admits, was ever fo happily exprefled on the art of painting... | |
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