 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...comes! she comes! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 650 Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows...flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, ., 635 Ttf^ick'ning stars fade oif the ethereal plain; As Argus's eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 184 pages
...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...flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, 635 The sick'ning stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...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...Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the' etherial plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd one by one to everlasting rest ; Thus... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...! she comes ! the sable tbrone hehold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows...flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, 686 The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pages
...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...the" ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppress'd, 6" Olos'd one by one to everlasting rest; Thus at her felt approach, and secret might, Art... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...greater expense of her virtue to entrance than barely to quiet. SCRIBL. Before her, fancy's gilded clonds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit...The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by ono at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th' ether'al plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes'... | |
 | James Plumptre - Theater - 1809 - 318 pages
...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...fires ; The meteor drops, and in a flash expires." Jones (of Nayland,) in a note to Bishop Horne's character of Voltaire, says of him, that, " By making... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...! 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 Medea's strain, The sickening... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 374 pages
...! 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...flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, 635 The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd... | |
 | England - 1845 - 808 pages
...Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her fancy's gilded clonds decay, And all its varying raiubows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires,...expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus's eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd one... | |
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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 sickening... 
