 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...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Seite 374von Alexander Pope - 1807 - 550 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 Seiten
...! * * * * In vain, in vain, — the all-composing hour Resistless falls : the Muse obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of...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... | |
 | 1850 - 836 Seiten
...! she comes 1 the sable throne behold. Of night primeval, and of citaos old ; Before her, Fancy'» gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows...dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand opprest, Closed one by one to everlasting n*st ; Thus... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 Seiten
...with thy song ! In vain, in vain, the all-composing hour Resistless falls ! the muse obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 REMARKS. Implying a groat desire ao to do, ai the learned scholiast on the placo rightly observes.... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 438 Seiten
...Well may it be asked whether the prophecy of Pope is not at length on the eve of fulfilment : — w She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold, Of Night primeval and of Chaos old, As, one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain, — As Argus'... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 Seiten
...poet's verse ever mounted higher than that wonderful flight with which the " Dunciad" concludes:* — "She comes, she comes! the sable throne behold! Of...expires. As, one by one, at dread Medea's strain The sick'ning stars fade off the ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppress'd, Closed one... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 Seiten
...poet's verse ever mounted higher than that wonderful flight with which the " Dunciad" concludes :' — " She comes, she comes ! the sable throne behold ! Of night primeval and of Chaos old ; 1 " He (Johnson) repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the '... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 Seiten
...song! ****** In vain, in vain, — the all-composing hour Resistless falls: the Muse obeys the power. 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 Seiten
...poet's verse ever mounted higher than that wonderful flight with which the " Dunciad" concludes :' — " She comes, she comes ! the sable throne behold ' Of night primeval and of Chaos old ; 1 " He (Johnson) repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the '... | |
 | 1855 - 592 Seiten
...reminded at such times of the prophecy of the poet Pope concerning the reign of Anti-Christ : — " She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold, Of Night primeval and of Chaos old. As one by one, at dread Media's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain, — As Argus'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...with thy song ! In vain, in vain— the all-composing hour Resistless falls; the muse obeys the power. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold Of Night...expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off the ethereal plain; \s Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppress'd, Closed one... | |
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