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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... "
Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack - Page xii
1816
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The seasons & Castle of indolence, by Thomson. The farmer's boy, Rural tales ...

James Thomson - 1842 - 440 pages
...disturb, the tranquil mind. Behold ! you breathing prospect bids fhe muse Throw all her beauty 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 lose them in each other, as appears In ev'ry...
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Norway, and Her Laplanders, in 1841: With a Few Hints to the Salmon Fisher

John Milford - Fishing - 1842 - 352 pages
...all stopped to admire. It was one which can never be forgotten, but which no language can describe. " Who can paint Like nature ? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? If fancy then Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task, Ah ! what shall language do ? ah ! where...
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The Lady's Book of Flowers and Poetry: To which are Added, a Botanical ...

Lucy Hooper - Flower language - 1842 - 304 pages
...doom, But won the thorniest Crown of amaranthine bloom I BEAUTY AND FRAGRANCE OF FLOWERS. THOMSON. 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 ev'ry...
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...disturb, the tranquil mind. Behold yon breathing prospect bids the Muse Throw all her beauty forth. But hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every...
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The Seasons: And The Castle of Indolence

James Thomson - Seasons - 1891 - 458 pages
...try. ' Or can he [Imagination] 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 ! ' The construction, though the line be restored, is loose and even slovenly, and the grammar faulty....
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Contributions to Horticultural Literature: Being a Selection of Articles ...

William Paul - Gardening - 1892 - 596 pages
...brilliancy, and what delicacy of hue, pervade the assembled mass ! Well may we exclaim as we admire — " 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...
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The Speaker's Garland, Volume 2

P. Garrett - 1892 - 906 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. To confine our studies to mere antiquities is like reading by candle-light, with our shutters...
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A Practical Flora for Schools and Colleges

Oliver Rivington Willis - Botany - 1894 - 380 pages
...such prominent examples of Nature's beauties, and feels what the poet felt when he wrote : — " 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...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious ..., Volume 1873

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...course. THOMSON. O nature ! Enrich me with the knowledge of thy works : Snatch me to heaven. THOMSON. 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...
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The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations: English, Latin, and Modern Foreign ...

Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Canto VII. L. 205. Nothing in Nature is unbeautiful. v. TENNYSON — The Lover's Tale. L. 348. But 0 +1 hers? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every...
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