 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 - Page 272by Alexander Pope - 1764Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 370 pages
...all-compoiing Hour Refiftlefs falls : The Miife obeys the Pow'r. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old!...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... | |
 | 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,...momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flafh expires. REMARKS. worthy the folution of that profound Scholiafr, Mr. Upton liimfelf (and perhaps not of Icfs... | |
 | 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...vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in aflafh expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's ftrain, 635 The fick'ning ftars fade off th' ethereal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 388 pages
...aut quot humi moricntia corpora fundis?" Virg. She comes! me comes! the fable Throne behold Of Nipbt Primaeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's...decay, And all its varying Rain-bows die away. Wit moots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flam expires. As one by one, at dread... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...{he comes ! the fable Throne " behold " Of Night primaeval, and of Chaos old ! " Before her, Panels gilded clouds decay, " And all its varying Rain-bows...its momentary fires, " The meteor drops, and in a flam expires. " As one by one, at dread Medea's ftrain, " The fick'ning fiars fade off th' ethereal... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 340 pages
...ex$t eucc of her Virtue to intrance than barely to quiet. SCRIBL. She comes ! (he comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old...vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flam expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's ftrain, 635. The fickening ftars fade off" th' ethereal... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...greater expence of her Virtue to intrance than barely to quiet. SCRIBL. She comes ! (he comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 338 pages
...greater expence of her virtue to intrance than barely to quiet. SCRIBL. She comes ! fhe comes ! the fable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old...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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