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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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Tales of the academy

Tales - Conduct of life - 1820 - 560 pages
...as fire. Viewed sideways, the feathers appear mixed with gold, and beneath of a dull garnet colour. Who can paint Like Nature ? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like these ? Do you know how many varieties there are of this beautiful little animal? HCMMINO-BIRD. Six...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

Classical poetry - 1822 - 278 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,whatshalllanguagedo? Ah, where find words...
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Compendium of modern geography

Compendium - 1822 - 342 pages
...TONQUIN. SKETCH OF COCHIN-CHINA AND TONQUIN. • Who can paint Like Nature ? Can imagination boast, Amidst its gay creation, hues like her's : Or, can it mix...that matchless skill ; And lose them in each other ?" THOMSON. WHAT are the dominions of the king of Cochin-China ? These countries, inhabited by a lively...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 43

British poets - 1822 - 272 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'. Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, • And lose them in each other, as appears In...
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The Book of Nature Laid Open: In a Popular Survey of the Phenomena and ...

Rev. W. Hutton - Natural history - 1822 - 306 pages
...and what delightful perfumes do they emit ! In view of these well might the poet exclaim : — — " Who can paint Like Nature ? Can imagination boast Amid its gay creation, lines like hers? Or can it mix them with that matchless skUl, And lose them in each other, as appears...
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The English Master: Or, Student's Guide to Reasoning and Composition ...

William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...for where are so many delightful pictures presented to the imagination as in " The Seasons ?" " But who can paint Like nature ? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can she mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...nature, rarely can be poor ; Who lives to fancy, never can be rich. Young's Night TJioughts, n. 6. 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 Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 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 ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill And lose them in each other, аз appears In every...
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Relics of Antiquity: Exhibited in the Ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum ...

Sarah Atkins - Herculaneum (Extinct city) - 1825 - 178 pages
...to exclaim with my favourite Thomson : " Who can paint Like Nature ? Can imagination boast, Amidst its gay creation, hues like her's ? Or can it mix...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....
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The Seasons

James Thomson - Seasons - 1826 - 176 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...as appears 'In every bud that blows^ If fancy then 470 Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task, Ah, what shall language do ? Ah, where find words Tinged...
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