| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 496 pages
...the j'ower. She comes ! ihe comes ? the f.ible Throne behold Of Night Primeval, and of ClnosolJ ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die .iway. Wit (hoots in vain its momentary fires> Tlie meteor drops, and in a flaln expirei. As one by... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 196 pages
...obeys the pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Tight primeval, and of Chaos old 1 630 Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its...flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, 635 The sick'ning stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1806 - 468 pages
...the Pow'r. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primeval, 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 - 1806 - 448 pages
...the Pow'r. She comes ! flic comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primeval, and of Chaos old ! 63* 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... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 440 pages
...the Pow'r. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primeval, and of Chaos old ! 63 e 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 - 1807 - 474 pages
...,s'-"' r,rg. 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...expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the' etherial plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd one... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...the pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable tbrone hehold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its...flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, 686 The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...obeys the pow'r. She comes! she comes I the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its...expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the" ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppress'd, 6" Olos'd... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...greater expense of her virtue to entrance than barely to quiet. SCRIBL. Before her, fancy's gilded clonds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit...The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by ono at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ether'al plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes'... | |
| James Plumptre - Theater - 1809 - 318 pages
...reminded of an Apostle's assertion, " When I became a man, I put away childish things." Before him fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows...fires ; The meteor drops, and in a flash expires." Jones (of Nayland,) in a note to Bishop Horne's character of Voltaire, says of him, that, " By making... | |
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