| Leslie Stephen - 1880 - 238 páginas
...obeys the Power— 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... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 páginas
..."THE DUNCIAD." She comes ! she comes ! the sahlo throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! FBOH "THE PLEASURES or IMAGINATION." * " * Thus doth Beauty dwell There most cons shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. A» one by one, at dread... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 632 páginas
...obeys the pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of 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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 páginas
...— Bosuui.i.. " She comes, she comes ! tlic 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... | |
| Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 páginas
...obeys the power. 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 rain-bows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 páginas
..."THE DUNCIAD." She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! t shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by oue, at dread... | |
| Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 páginas
...obeys the Pow'r. She comes! she comes! the sable 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 shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 páginas
...Muse obeys the Pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
| 1989 - 204 páginas
...beings. Hard upon the portentousness of the opening couplet comes something of quite a different kind : Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Fancy may be decaying, but the effect of the lines which tell us this is that of a brightly sensuous,... | |
| Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 páginas
...obeys the Pow'r. She comes! she comes! the sable 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 shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
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