 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...the power. 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 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 374 pages
...the pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chans old ! 630 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... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Italian literature - 1818 - 396 pages
...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. Nor public flame nor... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Italian literature - 1818 - 396 pages
...obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne hehold, 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. Nor public fame nor private... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 294 pages
...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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...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... | |
 | 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 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 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 shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one at dread... | |
 | 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 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... | |
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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... 
