 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 New-England Magazine - Page 161edited by - 1835Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 pages
...agrees. Look when a painter who'd 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 exceed : So did his horse exceed a common one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace and bone. Round-hoof' d, short-jointed,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...— Look, when a painter would surpass the life, In limning out a well-porportion'd steed, His art's 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. Round-hoof 'd, short-jointed, fetlocks... | |
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - 1818 - 58 pages
...D'HISTOIKE. Look when a painter would surpass the life, In limning out a well proportional 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, ¡u courage, colour, pace, and bone. Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks... | |
 | Benjamin Robert Haydon - 1818 - 34 pages
...D'HISTOIRE. Look when a painter would surpass the life, In limning out a well proportional 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, an'd bone. Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...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...this horse excell a common one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. ties, not leap, as the word is now commonly pronounced in England. In Ireland,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 454 pages
...7 ' Look, when & 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 exceed ; ' So did this horse excel!," &c. In Drayton's Mortimeriados, printed I believe in 1596, (afterwards entitled The Barons'... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...quotation : " 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 exceed : So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. Round-hoof 'd, short-jointed, fetlocks... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...quotation : " 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 exceed : So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1823 - 426 pages
...quotation : " 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 exceed : So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. Round-hoof d, short-jointed, fetlocks... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 598 pages
...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 exceed : So did his horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone. Round-hooPd, short jointed,... | |
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