 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with starry vapours spangles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall ; Of a new rainbow ere it fret or fade, The choicest piece took out, a scarf is made." Book II. * This was a favourite word with Johnson. In '.Idler,'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...lines — pointed out by Wakefield — in Cowley's Davideis :— " This he with starry vapours spangles all, Took in their prime, ere they grow ripe and fall: Of a new rainbow ere it fret or fade, The choicest part took out, the scarf is made."] 8 Instances of contrarieties, given even from such characters... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1854 - 340 pages
...lines—pointed out by Wakeneld—in Cowley's Davideis :— " This he with starry vapours spangles all, Took in their prime, ere they grow ripe and fall: Of a new rainbow ere it fret or fade, The choicest part took out, the scarf is made."] ' Instances of contrarieties, given even from such characters... | |
 | William Howitt - 1856 - 596 pages
...sprightly azure pleased the eyes ; This he with starry vapors sprinkles all, Took in their prime before they grow ripe and fall ; Of a new rainbow, ere it fret or fade, The choicest piece cut out, a scarf is made." This comes but indifferently after a passage of Byron or... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 364 pages
...from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure please the eyes; This he with starry vapours spangles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe, and fall: Of a new rainbow, ere it fret or fade, The choicest piece took out, a scarf is made; Small streaming clouds he does for wings display, Not virtuous... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 pages
...from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure please the eyes; This he with starry vapours spangles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe, and fall : Of a new rainbow, ere it fret or fade, The choicest piece took out, a scarf is made ; Small streaming clouds he does for wings display, Not virtuous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 608 pages
...nock she phift* her transient charms. Young, Sat. V. — WARTON. This he with starry vapours spangles all. Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall : Of a new rainbow ere it fret or fade. The choicest piece foiok out, the scarf is made. Cowley, Davideis, ii. 807. — WAKEFIELD. Pope's exquisite... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 572 pages
...neck she shifts her transient charm*. Young, Sat. V.— WABTOK. This he with starry vapours spangles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall: Of a new rainbow ere it fret or fade, Ihe choicest piece took out, the scarf is nude. Cowley, Davidola, U. 807. — WAKE7IEU). Pope's exquisite... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 570 pages
...neck she shifts her transient charms. Young, Sal. V.— WABTOH. This he with starry vapours spangles all. Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall: Of a uew rainbow ere it fret or fade, The choicest piece took out, the scarf is made. Cowley, Davidels,... | |
 | Rudolf Kirsten - 1899 - 144 pages
...from the skies, Where the most sprightly Azure pleased the eyes. This he with starry vapours spangles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall. Of a new rainbow e'er it fret or fade, The choicest piece took out, a scarf is made. Small streaming clouds he does... | |
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Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure... 
