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" 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 Medea's strain, The sick'ning... "
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last ... - Page 317
by Alexander Pope - 1760
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: The Dunciad

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 354 pages
...Mufe obeys the Pow'r. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaoi old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Wit fhoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flafh expires. As one by one, at dread...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: The Dunciad

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 370 pages
...Refiftlefs falls : The Miife obeys the Pow'r. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old! 630 Before her, Fancy's...clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. REMARKS. VER. 624.*T7.?# Venal quiet, end &c.] It were a Problem worthy the folution of that profound...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 6

Alexander Pope - 1754 - 248 pages
...Mufe obeys the Pow'r. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Cbaas old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Wit fhoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flafh expires. REMARKS. worthy the folution...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 246 pages
...faUs : the Mufe obeys the Pow'r. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primzval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded...decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Wit fhoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flafh expires. REMARKS. worthy the fotation...
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The Dunciad, in four books

Alexander Pope - 1757 - 368 pages
...the colours ot Fancy, and damp the fire of Wit, before they proceed to their greater work. , . V7. Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Wit fhoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in aflafh expires. As one by one, at dread...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1764 - 350 pages
...Refiftlefs falls : The Mule obeys the Pow'r. She comes ! fhe comes ! the Table Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her Fancy's...decay, And all its varying rain-bows die away. Wit fhoots in vain its momentary fires, The Meteor drops, and in a flafh expires. As one by one, at dread...
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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a ...

Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...• " She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable 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 (hoots in vain its momentary fires, " The meteor drops, and in a flafh expires. " As one by one, at...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 394 pages
...: the Mufe obeys the Pow'r. She comes ! ihe comes * ! the fable Throne f behold Of Night Primœval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain bows die away. Wit fhoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flafh expires....
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical ..., Volumes 32-34

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...to intrance than barely to quiet. SCRIBL. She comes ! (he comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's...decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Wit (hoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flam expires. As one by one, at dread...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 338 pages
...to intrance than barely to quiet. SCRIBL. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable 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 fhoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flafh expires....
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