 | James Thomson - 1826 - 268 pages
...forth. But who run paint Like nature ? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hnos like hers? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In ev'ry bud that blows? If fancy then Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task, Ah, what shall language... | |
 | Sarah Atkins - Herculaneum (Extinct city) - 1826 - 176 pages
...— " Who can paint Like Nature ? Can imagination boast, Amidst its gay creation, hues like hers : Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other ? " Torre del Greco is about six or seven miles from Naples, and Pompeii more than double that distance.... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 768 pages
...individuals mix in a crowd so as to be lost ; Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers, Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other ? THOMSON. Things are mingled together of different sizes if they lie in the same spot, but they may... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 866 pages
...they discover ! — and, what delightful perfumes remit! Viewing these, well might the poet exclaim: -Who can paint Like Nature ? Can imagination boast Amid its gay creation, hues like hen ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears la every... | |
 | Agriculture - 1834 - 652 pages
...an assemblage of colours before us, these lines of the poet stole slowly through our minds : — " Who can paint Like Nature ? Can Imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1828 - 438 pages
...UAREWOOD; one representing what it was. the other what it is, as we viewed it on the 10th mst. — "But who can paint Like nature? Can imagination boast Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?" The company made their appearance at differen hours of the forenoon, in small parties, and as... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 240 pages
...disturb, the tranquil mind. Behold! yon breathing prospect bids the Muse Throw all her beauty forth. But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like In-rV Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In ev'ry... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 537 pages
...disturb, the tranquil mind. Behold yon breathing prospect bids the Muse Throw all her beauty forth. But who can paint Like Nature) Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers 1 Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every... | |
 | Religious poetry, English - 1833
...bues like hers ? And can he mix them with that matchless skill, And lay them on so delicately fine, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows ? If fancy then Unequal, fail beneath the pleasing task, Ah ! what can language do ? THOMSON. The flowers of Spring are beautiful,... | |
 | Gardening - 1834 - 648 pages
...through our minds: — Like Nature ? Can Imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And...in each other, as appears In every bud that blows ? " •" Who can paint In the peach house were good crops of peaches. and nectarines, trained on a... | |
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But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows... 
