In limning out a well-proportion'd steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed; So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, colour, pace and bone. The Retrospective Review - Side 3831823Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 sider
...day, and they contain many traces of his philosophical and reflective spirit. [The Hone of Admis.] ehearse ; Bat let your love even with my life decay : Lest th wcll-proportionM »teed, His art with Nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 504 sider
...th» life, In limning out a well-proportioned steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, Ae if the dead the living should exceed ; So did this...one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. " Round-hoof 'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eyes, small head, and nostril... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 sider
...,/-.,</... ¡ Look, when a painter would surpass the life, In limning out a well-pronortion'd Bleed, tliis horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. Round-hoofd, short-jointed,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1850 - 484 sider
...and is explained iu Cotgrave's French Dictionary as meaning " enough •jft, soft, no more of that." Look, when a painter would surpass the life, In limning out a well-proportioned steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 656 sider
...pleasant hill t Artifieial t<n/e— the eontest of art with nature. So in the ' Venus and Adonis'" Look, when a painter would surpass the life, In limning...workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exeeed : So did this horse exeel." k An allusion to the aneient praetiee of writing upon waxen tablets... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 458 sider
...trumpets, Ha, ha ! " Look, when a painter would surpass the life, In limning out a well-proportioned steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife,...this horse excel a common one, In shape, in courage, color, pace, and bone. Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 446 sider
...passion. 3 This is a faint echo of the wonderful passage in Job, " He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ! " Look, when a painter would surpass the life, In limning out a well-proportioned steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1852 - 548 sider
...trappings gay ? He sees his love, and nothing else he sees, For nothing else with his proud sight agrees. Look, when a painter would surpass the life, In limning...one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. Eound-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eyes, small head, and nostril... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1852 - 562 sider
...gay У Île sees his love, and nothing eine he see«s For nothing else with his proud sight agrees. d many an old man's sigh, and many a widow's, •And many an well-pro port ion'd steed, His art with Nature's workmanship nt strife, As if the dead the living should... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 sider
...trapping gay ? He sees his love, and nothing else he sees, Nor nothing else with his proud sight agrees. Look, when a painter would surpass the life, In limning out a well-proportion 'd steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should... | |
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