 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 pages
...the Pow'r. She comes! she comes! the sable Throne behold2 Of Night primseval 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 3, 635 The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1871 - 678 pages
...an organ : " 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 his momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires, As one by one, at dread Medea's strain,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1871 - 542 pages
...British senate was once famous. " Before them Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rambows die away ; Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops and in a flash expires." We have now, however, said enough to prove our point, which is this, that owing to a variety of causes,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! eso Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its...dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppress'd, Closed one by one to everlasting rest... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 pages
...concludes : — * "She come?, 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 ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppress'd, Closed, one... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 622 pages
...the poem : — 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 his momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. ****** See skulking Truth to her old... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 590 pages
...the poem : — 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 his momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. »»»«»* See skulking Truth to her... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...concludes :* — ' She comes, she comes 1 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; AVit shoots in vain its momentary tires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As, one by one,... | |
 | John Bascom - English literature - 1874 - 348 pages
...excessive. " 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...momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. * English Humorists. \ Ibid. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th'... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...* * * « In vain, in vain—the all-composing hour Resistless falls : the Muse obeys the power. 620 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 th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Closed one by... | |
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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... 
