 Night primaeval 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...  The Works of Alexander Pope - Página 272por Alexander Pope - 1764Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 370 páginas
...all-compoiing Hour Refiftlefs falls : The Miife obeys the Pow'r. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old!...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 - 1754 - 248 páginas
...Mufe obeys the Pow'r. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Cbaas old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay,...momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flafh expires. REMARKS. worthy the folution of that profound Scholiafr, Mr. Upton liimfelf (and perhaps not of Icfs... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 368 páginas
...the colours ot Fancy, and damp the fire of Wit, before they proceed to their greater work. , . V7. Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its...vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in aflafh expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's ftrain, 635 The fick'ning ftars fade off th' ethereal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 388 páginas
...aut quot humi moricntia corpora fundis?" Virg. She comes! me comes! the fable Throne behold Of Nipbt Primaeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's...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 - 1769 - 600 páginas
...{he comes ! the fable Throne " behold " Of Night primaeval, and of Chaos old ! " Before her, Panels gilded clouds decay, " And all its varying Rain-bows...its momentary fires, " The meteor drops, and in a flam expires. " As one by one, at dread Medea's ftrain, " The fick'ning fiars fade off th' ethereal... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 páginas
...• " She comes ! fhe 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 (hoots in vain its momentary fires, " The meteor drops, and in a flafh expires. " As one by one, at... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 páginas
...: the Mufe obeys the Pow'r. She comes ! ihe comes * ! the fable Throne f behold Of Night Primœval, 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 340 páginas
...ex$t eucc of her Virtue to intrance than barely to quiet. SCRIBL. She comes ! (he comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old...vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flam expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's ftrain, 635. The fickening ftars fade off" th' ethereal... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 páginas
...greater expence of her Virtue to intrance than barely to quiet. SCRIBL. She comes ! (he comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old...decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Wit (hoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flam expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 338 páginas
...greater expence of her virtue to intrance than barely to quiet. SCRIBL. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old...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.... | |
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