 | John Bell - 1778 - 438 pagine
...the sight ; With us approach, retire, arise, and fall ; 16 Nothmg themselves, and yet expressing all. Such are thy pieces, imitating life So near, they almost conquer in the strjfe, And from their animated canvas came to Demanding souls, and loosen'd from the frame. Prometheus,... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pagine
...the sight ; With us, approach, retire, arise, and fall ; Nothing themselves, and yet expressing all. Such are thy pieces; imitating life So near, they almost conquer in the strife, And, from the animated canvas, came 20 Demanding souls, and loosen'd from the frame. Prometheus, were... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pagine
...the sight; With us approach, retire, arise, and fall ; Nothing themselves, and yet expressing all. Such are thy pieces, imitating life So near, they almost conquer in the strife ; And from their animated canvas came, Demanding souls, and loosened from the frame. Prometheus, were... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pagine
...the sight; With us approach, retire, arise, and fall ; Nothing themselves, and yet expressing all. Such are thy pieces, imitating life So near, they almost conquer in the strife ; And from their animated canvas came, Demanding souls, and loosened from the frame. Prometheus, were... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pagine
...the sight ; With us approach, retire, arise, and fall ; Nothing themselves, and yet expressing all. Such are thy pieces, imitating life So near, they almost conquer in the strife ; And from their animated canvass came, Demanding souls, and loosen'd from the frame. Prometheus, were... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pagine
...the sight ; With us approach, retire, arise, and fall ; Nothing themselves, and yet expressing all. es pide, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom' ; And from their animated canvass came, Demanding souls, and loosen'd from the frame. Prometheus, were... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 504 pagine
...the sight ; With us approach, retire, arise, and fall ; Nothing themselves, and yet expressing all. Such are thy pieces, imitating life So near, they almost conquer in the strife ; And from their animated canvas came, Demanding souls, and loosen'd from the frame. Prometheus, were... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 346 pagine
...the sight ; With us approach, retire, arise, and fall ; Nothing themselves, and yet expressing all. Such are thy pieces, imitating life So near, they almost conquer in the strife ; And from their animated canvass came, Demanding souls, and loosen'd from the frame. Prometheus, were... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 316 pagine
...the sight ; With us approach, retire, arise, and fall ; Nothing themselves, and yet expressing all. Such are thy pieces, imitating life So near, they almost conquer in the strife ; And from their animated canvass came Demanding souls, and loosen'd from the frame. Prometheus, were... | |
 | James Boaden - 1824 - 240 pagine
...certainly received. It is amusing moreover to see him cramming upon Kneller, the very drug with 56 which Ben Jonson had so long before choked the Dutchman...applied to either man or woman, or to lower ranks of * Gravity itself must relax into a smile, to find our poet even preceding Jonson in this allusion:... | |
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tis somewhat more than just to see. Shadows are but privations of the light; Yet, when we walk, they shoot before the sight; With us approach, retire, arise, and fall; Nothing themselves, and yet expressing all. Such are thy pieces, imitating life So... 
