 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
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 238 Seiten
...obeys the Power— 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. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires, As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 Seiten
...advancing Dullness: She comes ! she conies ! 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 ill a flash expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 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... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 240 Seiten
...the Power — 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. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires, As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 Seiten
..."THE DUNCIAD." She comes ! she comes ! the sahlo throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! FBOH "THE PLEASURES or IMAGINATION." * " * Thus doth Beauty dwell There most cons shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. A» one by one, at dread... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 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... | |
 | Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 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 Rain-bows 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 - 1963 - 884 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...decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
 | 1989 - 204 Seiten
...beings. Hard upon the portentousness of the opening couplet comes something of quite a different kind : Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Fancy may be decaying, but the effect of the lines which tell us this is that of a brightly sensuous,... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 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 Rain-bows 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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