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" I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare; Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. "
The Whole Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: Including His Translations ... - Page 383
by Alexander Pope - 1804 - 479 pages
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Criticisms and Dramatic Essays of the English Stage

William Hazlitt - Acting - 1851 - 360 pages
...all others the most difficult to personate on the stage. It is like the attempt to embody a shadow. " Come then, the colours and the ground prepare, Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air ; Choose a firm cloud, before it falls, and in it Catch, 'ere she change, the Cynthia of a minute."...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 88

1851 - 354 pages
...haste each fleeting zoological phantom, may in that case parody Pope and exclaim to each other — Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare, Dip in the rainbow, trick them out in air ; Take a firm cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere they change, the poultry...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 88

1851 - 606 pages
...haste each fleeting zoological phantom, may in that case parody Pope and exclaim to each other — Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare, Dip in the rainbow, trick them out in air ; Take a firm cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere they change, the poultry...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, f folly grow romantic, I must paint it, Come then, the colors r of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, wi hoose a firm cloud, before it fall, and in it 'atch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. Rufa,...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers, Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1854 - 338 pages
...palms, and harps divine;1 Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, 15 If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air;3 Choose a firm cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute....
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...Daphne she, as lovely and as coy. Millamant is the perfect model of the accomplished fine lady : " Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare, Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air ; Choose a firm cloud, before it falls, and in it Catch ere she change, the Cynthia of a minute." She...
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Criticisms and Dramatic Essays of the English Stage

William Hazlitt - Acting - 1854 - 358 pages
...all others the most difficult to personate on the stage. It is like the attempt to embody a shadow. " Come then, the colours and the ground prepare, Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air ; Choose a firm cloud, before it falls, and in it Catch, 'ere she change, the Cynthia of a minute."...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 pages
...palms, and harps divine ; Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, 15 If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air ; Choose a firm cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute....
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Ruins of Time Exemplified in Sir Matthew Hale's History of the Pleas of the ...

Andrew Amos - Criminal law - 1856 - 306 pages
...retrograde. that of which Pope complains in drawing the characters of Women. Come, then, the colors and the ground prepare ! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air, Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and, in it, Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute....
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...palms, and harps divine , Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air ; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute....
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