 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 394 pages
...the Pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold 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, 635 The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 390 pages
...the Pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold 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, • 635 The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primœval, and of Chaos old I b f jJa sickening stars fade offth' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd one by... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 412 pages
...primum, quem postremum, asptra Virgo, Dejicis ? aut quot humi morientia corpora fundis ?" Virg. W.\ 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 th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 406 pages
...primum, quem postremum, aspera Virgo, Dejicis ? aut quot humi morientia corpora fundis ?" Virg. W.\ 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 th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...the power. She comes ! she comea 1 the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 030 Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its...expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, . The sickening stars fade offth" ethereal plain; REMARKS. Ver. 620. Wits Наve short memories,] This seems... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...sable throne behold Of Night prinuEval, and of Chaos old ! Before her, Faney's gilded elouds deeay, rder, all involving and entire. He too beholding in...swift eontingenee, all sueeessive ties )f aetion p siekening stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd one by... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...obeys the power. She comes ! ehe comes f the sable throne be Of night primeval, and nj Chaos old I , his momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 228 pages
...here represented as advancing to extinguish the light of the Of night primeval, and of Chaps old 630 Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain his momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...She comee ! she comes ! &c.] Here the muse, like- Jove's eagle, after a sudden stoop at ignoble game, to hope a poet for their friend 7 What Richlieu wanted, Louis scarce could his momentary tires. The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain,... | |
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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... 
