Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come, then, the colours and the ground prepare ! Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air ; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia... Mr. Pope, His Life and Times - Page 513by George Paston - 1909 - 6 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...Cecilia shine, With simpering angels, psalms, and harps divine, Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, Come then, the colours and the ground prepare! Dip in the rainbow, trick heroffin air; Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cyuthiaof this... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...shine, Vith simpering angels, palms, and harps divine • Vhether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, f ns in the midnight hour. 110 Twelve feet, deform'd and foul, the fiend dispreads; S : )ip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; /noose a firm cloud, before it fail, and in it Catch, ere... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...the charmer sinner it or saint it, 15 If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Come then, the colors and the ground prepare : Dip in the rainbow, trick...air; Choose a firm cloud, before it fall, and in it 10 Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. Rufa, whose eye quick-glancing o'er the park,... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...lifted eye; Or dress'd in smiles of sweet Cecilia shine, With simpering angels, palms, and harps divine; l* 0 l* : L)ip in the rainbow, trick her off in air; Choose a firm cloud, before it fail, and in it Catch,... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...palms, i ,)'une; Whether the charmer sinner it, v. i:it ii. If folly grow romantic, I must paiiu :t. Come then the colours and the ground prepare! Dip...trick her off in air ; Choose a firm cloud, before it fail, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. 20 Rufa, whose eye, quick glancing... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 338 pages
...without him — " How many pictures of one nymph we view, All how unlike each other — all how true: Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, this Cynthia of the minute." The philosophy of love (do not let anybody start at the word,) has been... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1837 - 204 pages
...better for us," observed the Dean; for— " The subject would be inexhaustible," replied Beveridge. ' Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, you must paint it. 1 VOL. II.—11 " All we wish to know is whether this happy passion, as you depict... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 318 pages
...would be inexhaustible,1' replied Beveridge. " So much the better for us," observed the Dean; for — 1 Whether the charmer sinner it or saint it, If folly grow romantic, you must paint it.' " All we wish to know is whether this happy passion, as you depict it, can shed... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1838 - 360 pages
...characters, the most difficult to personate on the stage. It is like the attempt to embody a shadow. " Come then, the colours and the ground prepare, Dip in the rainbow, trick her off in air ! Chose a firm cloud, before it falls, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of a minute." Such,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...eye, Or dress'd in smiles of sweet Cecilia shine, With simpering angels, palms, and harps divine3 ; races prcss'd His only hope Hufa, whose eye quick-glancing o'er the park,* Attracts each light gay meteor of a spark, Agrees as... | |
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