 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...palms, and harps divine ; Whethe» 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.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama (Comedy) - 1876 - 474 pages
...Daphne she, as lovely and as coy." Millamant is the perfect model of the accomplished fin& 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."... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...the charmer sinner it, or saint it, [f folly grow romantic, I must paint IT. Come then, the colors and lo Choose a firm cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minutRufa,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...Beauty, frail flow'r that every season fears, Blooms in thy colours for a thousand years. POPE. Come ! 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. PuPE.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1881 - 608 pages
...divine ; Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, U If folly grows romantic, I must paint it ! Corne then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the rainbow, trick her oft" in air, Chnse a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1904 - 632 pages
...artists would have adopted the happier mode proposed by Pope in describing his characters of women : ' Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare, Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air, Chuse a firm cloud, before it falls, and in it Catch, ere the change, the Cynthia of a minute ! ' But... | |
 | James Henry Cotter - 1902 - 218 pages
...mercurial parts were our Poet to direct his portrayal with the advice in the stanza : Come then the colors and the ground prepare, Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air! Chuse a firm cloud, before it falls, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of a minute. All... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - Literary Criticism - 1903 - 542 pages
...minute." Pope's phrase in the third "Moral Essay," the "Epistle to Martha Blount," lines 17-20 : — 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.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 586 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 oft" in air, Chuse a firm cloud, before it falls, and in it Catch, 'ere she change, the Cynthia of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1903 - 536 pages
...minute." Pope's phrase in the third "Moral Essay," the "Epistle to Martha Blount," lines 17-20 :— Come then, the colours and the ground prepare, Dip in the rainbow, trick her ofTin air; Choose a firm cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this... | |
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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. 
