 | William Baxter - Angiosperms - 1839 - 336 pages
...flowering stems being upright, rough, hairy, and dark-green ; not procumbent, smooth, and glaucous. " Who can paint Like Nature ! Can Imagination boast...Or can it 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 Î"... | |
 | England - 1839 - 876 pages
.... " 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...in each other, as appears In every bud that blows?" It can — for it mirrors all that God •was pleased to call into being ; and lovelier is Nature's... | |
 | Scotland - 1839 - 894 pages
...of thought, as now and then a spring shower dropping through the sunshine enlivens a stream. " 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... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...hues 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 ? Thomson. ARISTOTLE. DIOGENES LAERTIUS describes the person of the Stagyrite. — His eyes were small,... | |
 | William Baxter - Angiosperms - 1839 - 340 pages
...being upright, rough, hairy, and dark-green ; not procumbent, smooth, and glaucous. " Who can paiut Like Nature ! Can Imagination boast Amid its gay creation, hues like her's 7 Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lay them on so delicately fine, And lose them in... | |
 | James Thomson - 1840 - 174 pages
...But who can paint 465 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 hud that blows ? If fancy then 470 Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task, Ah, what shall language... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1841 - 352 pages
...forth. 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...in each other, as appears In every bud that blows 1 If Fancy, then, Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task, Ah! what shall language do? ah! where find... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...extreme beauty, and the melancholy that was mixed with it. (The World.) Can imagination boast, Amidst its gay creation, hues like her's, Or can it mix them...that matchless skill, And lose them in each other? (Thomson't Spring.) What honour could his (Shakspeare) name have derived from being mingled in dnsty... | |
 | Joshua Horner - Art - 1841 - 162 pages
...scene a treat of the most touching kind, and brought to my mind those fine lines of Thomson's, — 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... | |
 | George Field - Artists' materials - 1841 - 458 pages
...like these ? What hand can mix them with that matchless shill, And lay them on so delicately fine, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows?" Yet, by following Nature assiduously, the artist has power not only to approach, but to give permanence... | |
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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... 
