 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 610 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, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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. k Dr. Gilbert, Archbishop of York. i This seems to be the reason why the poets, whenever they give... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...she comes! &c.] Here the mute, Jko Jove's eagle, after a sudden sloop at ignoble game, Ilefore hor, 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the ' Dunciad.' " — BOSWBLL. 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 - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...concludes:* •— "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 - 1853 - 336 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1854 - 306 pages
...repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the ' Dunciad.'" — BOSWELL. 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 - 1856 - 362 pages
...the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! «so 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...THE DUNCIAD. 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... | |
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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... 
