 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...the skies, Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with starry vapours sprinkles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall; Of a new rainbow ere it fret or fade, The choicest piece cut out, a scarfe is made. This is a just specimen of Cowley's imagery : what might... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...the skies, Where the most sprightly azure pleased the eyes ; This he with starry vapours sprinkles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall ; Of a new rainbow ere it fret or fade, The choicest piece cut out, a scarfe is made. This is a just specimen of Cowley's imagery : what might... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...the skies, Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with starry vapours sprinkles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall ; Of a new rainbow ere it fret or fade, The choicest piece cut out, a scarf is made. This is a just specimen of Cowley's imagery : what might in... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...the skies, Where the most sprightly azure pleased the eyes j This he with starry vapours sprinkles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall ; Of a new rainbow ere it fret or fade, The choicest piece cut out, a scarf is made. This is a just specimen of Cowley's imagery: what might in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...the skies, Where the most sprightly azure pleas 'd the eyes ; This he with starry vapours sprinkles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall ; Of a new rainbow, ere it fret or fade, The choicest piece cut out, a scarf is made. This is a just specimen of Cowley's imagery : what might in... | |
 | Samuel Hibbert - Apparitions - 1825 - 514 pages
...from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure pleased the eyes ; This he with starry vapours spangles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe, and fall ; Of a new rainbow, ere it fret or fade, The choicest piece took out, a scarf is made ; Small streaming clouds he does for wings display, Nor virtuous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...the skies, Where the most sprightly azure pleas'd the eyes ; This he with starry vapours sprinkles all. Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall ; Of a new rainbow, ere it fret or fade, Thechoicest piece cut out, a scarf is made. This is a just specimen of Cowley's imagery: what .might... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...the skies, Where the most sprightly azure pleas' d the eyes ; This he with starry vapours sprinkles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall ; Of a new rainbow, er« it fret or fade, The choicest piece cut out, a scarf is made. This is a just specimen of Cowley's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...with toose care; . t He cots out a silk mantle from the skies, , This he with starry vapours sprinkles all, Took in their prime ere they grow ripe and fall; Of a new rainbow ere it fret or fade, The choicest. piece cut out, a scarf is made. This is a just specimen of Cowley's imagery : what might... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...the skies, Where the most sprightly azure pleased his eyes ; This he with starry vapours sprinkles all Took in their prime, ere they grow ripe and fall ; Of a new rainbow, ere it fret and fade, The choicest piece cut out a scarf is made, &c. &c. After this comes a digression, which... | |
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Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care ; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure... 
