 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 284 pages
...Fresnoy's close art with Dryden's native fire. t Alluding to another couplet in the same Epistle : Beauty, frail flower, that every season fears, Blooms in thy colours for a thousand years. Ev'n then I deem it but a venal crime : Perish alone that selfish sordid rhyme, Which flatters lawless... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...picture glow ; Thence beauty, waking all her forms, supplies An angel's sweetness, or Bridgewater's eyes. Yet still her charms in breathing paint engage, Her...thousand years. Thus Churchill's race shall other hearts surprise, And other beauties envy Worsley's eyes; Each pleasing Blount shall endless smiles bestow,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...this marble, and be vain no more ! Yet still her eharms in breathing paint engage ; Her modest eheek Poitiers and Cressy tell, When most their pride did swell, Under our swords they fel eolours for a thousand years. Thus Churehill's raee shall other hearts surprise, And other beauties... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...an I wife : Bid her be all that makes mankind adore ; Then view this marble, and be vain no more ! Yet still her charms in breathing paint engage : Her modest cheek shall warm a future age. Beaut} , frail flower, that every season fears, Blooms in thy colours fora thousand years. Thus Churchill's... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...age away, To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor would it sure be such a sin to paint. Pope. Her charms in breathing paint engage, Her modest cheek shall warm a future age. Id. Arts on the mind, like point upon the face, Fright him, that's worth your love, from your embrace.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...engage ; rler modest cheek shall warm a future age. Jeauty, frail flower that every season fears, {looms e face divine, and long-descending hair, Purple the ground, ai.d strcnk the surprise, And other beauties envy Worsley's eyes ; Jach pleasing Blount shall endless smiles bestow,... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 514 pages
...view this marble, and be vain no more ! * Fresnoy employed above twenty years in finishing this pocm. Yet still her charms in breathing paint engage : Her...thy colours for a thousand years. Thus Churchill's face shall other hearts surprise, And other beauties envy Wortley's * eyes, Each pleasing Blount shall... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 318 pages
...friend, and wife : Bid her be all that makes mankind adore ; Then view this marble, and be vain no more ! Yet still her charms in breathing paint engage : Her modest cheek shall warm a future age : 56 Beauty, frail flower, that every season fears, Blooms in thy colors for a thousand years. Thus... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1835 - 536 pages
...Fresnoy's close art with Dryden's native fire. t Alluding to another couplet in the same Epistle : — Beauty, frail flower, that every season fears, Blooms in thy colours for a thousand years. From fate like this my truth-supported lays, Ev'n if aspiring to thy pencil's praise, Would flow secure... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...no man." Pope alludes to the shortness of beauty in his fine compliment to Jervas the painter:— " Beauty, frail flower, that every season fears, ^ Blooms in thy colours for a thousand years. Scratched on a window at the Maidenhead Inn, Uckfield, is the following record of misery — " I am... | |
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Bid her be all that cheers or softens life, The tender sister, daughter, friend, and wife : Bid her be all that makes mankind adore; Then view this marble, and be vain no more ! Yet still her charms in breathing paint engage; Her modest cheek shall warm... 
