 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...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Seite 374von Alexander Pope - 1807 - 550 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 Seiten
...thy song ! In vain, in vain, — the all-composing hour Resistless falls : the Muse obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! «so Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 Seiten
...erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. POPE. 42. CONCLUSION OF THE DUNCIAD. SHE comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of...dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain, As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Closed one by one to everlasting rest ; Thus,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 Seiten
...vain, in vain — the all-composing hour Resistless falls ; the Muse obeys the power. She conies ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval,...dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest,687 Clos'd one by one to everlasting rest... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 Seiten
...! ****•* In vain, in vain — the all-composing hour Resistless falls : the Muse obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of...dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand oppress'd, Closed one by one to everlasting rest ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 Seiten
...Ami all its varying rainbows die away. Wii shoots in vain his momentary Irres, The meteor drops, anil in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars lade oft" the ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprcss'd, Closed one by one to everlasting... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 Seiten
...power. She comes ! she comes ! lhc sable throne behold Of night primeval, and of Chaos old ! liefore her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying...dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppressed, Closed one by one to everlasting rest ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 Seiten
...song ! ****** In vain, in vain — the all-composing hour Resistless falls ; the Muse obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of...dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest,687 Clos'd one by one to everlasting rest... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 360 Seiten
...mounted higher .than that wonderful flight with which the " Dunciad " concludes 1 : — " She conies, she comes ! the sable throne behold ! Of night primeval...expires. As, one by one, at dread Medea's strain The sick'ning stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppress'tl, Closed one... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 Seiten
...which the Dunciad concludes 1 : — She comes, she comes ! the sable throne behold ! Of Night primaeval and of Chaos old ; Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds...expires. As, one by one, at dread Medea's strain The sick'ning stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppress'd, Closed one... | |
 | 1865 - 226 Seiten
...catastrophe of the Dunciad, the empire of dnlness, a dreary reality — Before her, fancy's gilded elouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away ; Wit...dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Close one by one to everlasting rust ; Thus... | |
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