 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 fade off th' ethereal plain ;...  Mr. Pope, His Life and Times - Page 656by George Paston - 1909 - 6 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 480 pages
...and of Chaos old ! 650 Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor...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
...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...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
...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...dread 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pages
...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...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
...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...dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the" ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppress'd, 6" Olos'd one by one to everlasting... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...barely to quiet. SCRIBL. Before her, fancy's gilded clonds 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 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
...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,) in a note to Bishop Horne's character of Voltaire, says of him, that, " By making... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 374 pages
...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...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
...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, The meteor...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... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Italian literature - 1818 - 396 pages
...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 dares to shine, Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine. Lo ! thy dread... | |
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