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" Its living hues where the warm pencil pours, And breathing forms from the rude marble start, How to life's humbler scene can I depart ? My breast all glowing from those gorgeous... "
The Beauties of Wiltshire: Displayed in Statistical, Historical, and ... - Page 212
by John Britton - 1801
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: The principal picture-galleries in ...

William Hazlitt - 1903 - 544 pages
...account, and return homewards, but we think of Warton's Sonnet, -written after seeing Wilton-house. ' From Pembroke's princely dome, where mimic art Decks with a magic hand the dazzling bowers, Its living hues where the warm pencil pours, And breathing forms from the rude marble start,...
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The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings

William Hazlitt - English essays - 1904 - 540 pages
...similar train of feeling seems to have dictated Warton's spirited Sonnet on visiting Wilton-House : — ' From Pembroke's princely dome, where mimic art Decks with a magic hand the da22ling bowers, Its living hues where the warm pencil pours, And breathing forms from the rude marble...
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More Famous Houses of Bath & District: Being the Second Series of that Work

John Francis Meehan - Bath (England) - 1906 - 364 pages
...vestibule of the house, and designed by Holbein. There is much to attract and obtain admiration in — " Pembroke's princely dome, where mimic art Decks with a magic hand the dazzling bowers ; Its living hues where the warm pencil pours, And breathing forms from the rude marble start."...
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Motor Days in England: A Record of a Journey Through Picturesque Southern ...

John M. Dillon - England - 1908 - 456 pages
...Wilton House he composed one of the best things that ever came from his pen. I quote a few lines : From Pembroke's princely dome, where mimic Art Decks...the warm pencil pours, And breathing forms from the crude marble start, How to life's humbler scene can I depart ! My breast all glowing, from the gorgeous...
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The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...Muse's laurel unbestow'd. T. Warton 86. After Seeing the Collection of Pictures at Wilton House TIJ*ROM Pembroke's princely dome, where mimic Art -*• Decks with a magic hand the dazzling bowers, Its living hues where the warm pencil pours, And breathing forms from the rude marble start...
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The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers. Poems, 1777 3 12 Sonnet. Written after seeing Wilton-House FROM Pembroke's princely dome, where mimic Art Decks...pours, And breathing forms from the rude marble start, How to life's humbler scene can I depart? My breast all glowing from those gorgeous tow'rs, In my low...
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The Three Wartons: A Choice of Their Verse

Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1927 - 204 pages
...thy wondrous origine, We muse on many an ancient tale renown' d. V. WRITTEN AFTER SEEING WILTON HOUSE From Pembroke's princely dome, where mimic Art Decks with a magic hand the dazzling bowers, Its living hues where the warm pencil pours, And breathing forms from the rude marble start,...
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Voyages and Beaches: Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840

Alex Calder, Jonathan Lamb, Bridget Orr - History - 1999 - 360 pages
...power. After visiting the estate around 1 750, Thomas Warton reflected on the experience in sonnet form: From Pembroke's princely dome, where mimic Art Decks...where the warm pencil pours. And breathing forms from ihe rude marble start. How to life's humbler scene can I depart! My breast all glowing from those gorgeous...
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The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Warton, and Poet Laureate, Volume 1

Thomas Warton - 1802 - 374 pages
...future triumphs, Windfor, ftill remain, Still may thy bowers receive as brave a train. Sonnet V. ver. i. From Pembroke's princely dome, where mimic Art Decks with a magic hand the dazzling bowers. Ode on Summer, ver. 242. Of that proud caftle's painted bowers. Ode for New Year, 1788, ver....
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