 Night primeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars...  The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - Pagina 131de William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 pagini
...philofophical, and pious • " She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne " behold " Of Night primaeval, and of Chaos old ! .*' Before her, Fancy's gilded...decay, " And all its varying Rain-bows die away. *' Wit (hoots in vain its momentary fires, " The meteor drops, and in a flafh expires. " As one by one, at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pagini
...falls : the Mufe obeys the Pow'r. She comes ! me comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds...decay,, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. . Wit fhoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flafh expire'»'.J As one by one, at... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 pagini
...the pow'r. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 650 Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its...flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, ., 635 Ttf^ick'ning stars fade oif the ethereal plain; As Argus's eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 196 pagini
...obeys the pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Tight primeval, and of Chaos old 1 630 Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its...flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, 635 The sick'ning stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pagini
...Quem telo prlmum, quem poatremum a;pera Virgo s? aut quot huml, morientia corpora fund ,s'-"' r,rg. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of...expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the' etherial plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd one... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pagini
...the pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable tbrone hehold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its...flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, 686 The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pagini
...vain — the all-composing hour Resistless fails : the Muse obeys the pow'r. She comes! she comes I the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of...expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the" ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppress'd, 6" Olos'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pagini
...greater expense of her virtue to entrance than barely to quiet. SCRIBL. Before her, fancy's gilded clonds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit...The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by ono at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ether'al plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes'... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 pagini
...reminded of an Apostle's assertion, " When I became a man, I put away childish things." Before him fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows...fires ; The meteor drops, and in a flash expires." Jones (of Nayland,) in a note to Bishop Horne's character of Voltaire, says of him, that, " By making... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pagini
...the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its...rain-bows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fin's, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one at dread Medea's strain, The sickening... | |
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