 | Kirk Freudenburg - History - 2005 - 380 pages
...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. 40 For the childlike in Pope see Martindale (1983); fora brilliant account of the Dunciad along these... | |
 | Beverley C. Southgate - History - 2005 - 236 pages
...it's for. 4 Order 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 Rain-bows die away. (Alexander Pope)^ The threat of an imminent return to 'Chaos old', with its associated primeval night... | |
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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... 
