 Night primaeval 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...  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq - Seite 288von Alexander Pope - 1797 - 3650 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 Seiten
...* * * « In vain, in vain—the all-composing hour Resistless falls : the Muse obeys the power. 620 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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 Seiten
...commemorated : " She comes I she comes ! the sable throne behold Of 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... | |
 | sir John Skelton - 1876 - 430 Seiten
...Dunciad: — She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold, Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Thus at her felt approach, and secret might, Art after art goes out, and nll is night. See skulking... | |
 | Robert William Dale - 1877 - 344 Seiten
...between the vestry and the pulpit they had seen the sable throne of the goddess of the " Dunciad," — " 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. 1 " Society and Solitude."... | |
 | 1877 - 630 Seiten
...obeys the power. She comes ! she comes 1 the sable throne behold Of 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 Tho meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As ono by one, at dread... | |
 | R. W. Dale - 1877 - 330 Seiten
...between the vestry and the pulpit they had seen the sable throne of the goddess of the " Dunciad," — " 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. 1 " Society and Solitude."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1878 - 656 Seiten
...hour Resistless falls : the muse obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold l Of night primeval and of chaos old ! 630 Before her,...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 570 Seiten
...falls: the Muse obeys the Pow'r. She comes! she comes! the sable Throne behold* Of Night primaeval and of Chaos old! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. IVit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1879 - 360 Seiten
...obeys the power. She comet ! she comet ! the sable throne behold Of night primceval and of chaos old. Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit sftoots in vain its momentary fires, TJie meteor drops, and in a flash expires. At one by one, at dread... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 Seiten
...obeys the pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primaeval 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... | |
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