 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 the English Poets: Pope - Página 263por Samuel Johnson - 1779Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 184 páginas
...pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 i 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 468 páginas
...falls : The Mufe obeys the Pow'r. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded...vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flafh expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's ftrain, 635 The fick'ning ftars fade off th' ethereal... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 440 páginas
...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...vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flafh expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's- ftrain, 635 The fick'ning ftars fade off th' ethereal... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 442 páginas
...falls : The Mufe obeys the Pow'r. She comes ! me comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded...decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Wit moots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flafh expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 448 páginas
...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 - 1807 - 288 páginas
...falls: the Muse oheys the pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable tbrone hehold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, fancy's gilded...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 páginas
...,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 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 páginas
...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 die away ; Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires ; The meteor drops, and in a flash expires." Jones (of Nayland,)... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...falls : the M use obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded...decay, And all its varying rain-bows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fin's, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one at dread... | |
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