 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 Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - Page 555by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 354 pages
...the Pow'r. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaoi old ! 630 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 expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 370 pages
...the Pow'r. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable 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. REMARKS. VER. 624.*T7.?# Venal quiet, end &c.] It were a Problem worthy the folution of that profound... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 246 pages
...the Pow'r. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primzval, and of Chaos old ! 630 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 expires. REMARKS. worthy the fotation... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 388 pages
...fundis?" Virg. She comes! me comes! the fable Throne behold Of Nipbt Primaeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Wit moots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flam expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 346 pages
...SCRIBL. She comes ! (he comes ! the fable 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. Wit fhoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flafh expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 340 pages
...primum, quern poftremum affera Virgo <> Pejecis ? .ml quot iuimi, merientia corf era fundis .'" VUG. 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 expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 328 pages
...Hrft place Wot otu the Colours of Fancy, and damp the fire of 'Wit, before they proceed to their work. 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 expires. As one by one at dread... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - English language - 1794 - 436 pages
...anarchy, obfcurity and barbarifm.' She comes, flic comes ! the fable throne behold Of Night primaeval and of Chaos old ! Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows fade away. Wit fhoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor falls, and in a flam expires. A» one... | |
| |
