 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...garments flew, Thin glitt'ring textures of the filmy dew, Dipt in fhe richest tincture of the skies, 6; Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While...Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel plac'd; 70 His pMrple pinions... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Epic poetry, English - 1798 - 146 pages
...whispers breathe, That seem'd but zephyrs to the train beneath. Some to the sun their insect-wings unfold, Waft on the breeze, or sink in clouds of gold...Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel plac'd; His purple pinions open'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1801 - 140 pages
...Their fluid bodies half dissolv'd in light, Loose to the wind their airy garments flew, Thin glittering textures of the filmy dew, Dipt in the richest tincture...Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel plac'd; His purple pinions open'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...garments flew, Thin glitt'ring textures of the filmy dew, Dipt in the richest tincture of the skies, 65 Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While...Colours that change -whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel plac'd ; 70 His purple pinions... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805 - 424 pages
...improvements. Fortunately for the fame of Pope, he persisted in his plan, and by the most skilful intertexture of supernatural agency which the records of poetry...profuse in the colouring of fancy : Ye Sylphs and Sylphids, to your chief give ear, Fays, Fairies, Genii, Elves, and Demons hear! Ye know the spheres,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...Dipt in the richest tincture of the skies, "Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes; While every beam new transient colours flings ; Colours, that change whene'er they wave their wings.* Ariel afterwards enumerates the functions and employments of the sylphs, in the following manner ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While every heam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior hy the head, was Ariel plac'd; His purple pinions opening... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...the richest tincture of the skies, 65 Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While every heam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior hy the head, was Ariel plac'd; 7O His purple pinions... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...Dipp'd in the richest tinctures of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel plac'd ; His purple pinions opening... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...Dipt in the richest tincture of the skies, Where light disports in ever-mingling dyes, While every beam new transient colours flings, Colours that change whene'er they wave their wings. Amid the circle, on the gilded mast, Superior by the head, was Ariel plac'd; His purple pinions opening... | |
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Bodies half dissolv'd in Light. Loose to the Wind their airy Garments flew, Thin glitt'ring Textures of the filmy Dew; Dipt in the richest Tincture of the Skies, Where Light disports in ever-mingling Dyes, While ev'ry Beam new transient Colours flings,... 
