 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
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 Seiten
...the Pow'r. She comes! she comes! the sable Throne behold2 Of Night primseval and of Chaos old! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its...flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain 3, 635 The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd... | |
 | 1871 - 678 Seiten
...himself in tears. The satire is keen, but the word-music is like the swelling tones of an organ : " She comes > she comes ! the sable throne behold Of...its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain his momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires, As one by one, at dread Medea's strain,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1871 - 542 Seiten
...British senate was once famous. " Before them Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rambows die away ; Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops and in a flash expires." We have now, however, said enough to prove our point, which is this, that owing to a variety of causes,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 Seiten
...ever mounted higher than that wonderful flight with which the " Dunciad" concludes : — * "She come?, she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval...dread Medea's strain The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppress'd, Closed, one by one, to everlasting rest... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 Seiten
...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 ! eso Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 Seiten
...a passage is the description of the approach of the empire of Dulness, at the end of the poem : — She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of...its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain his momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. »»»«»* See skulking Truth to her... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 Seiten
...a passage is the description of the approach of the empire of Dulness, at the end of the poem : — She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of...its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain his momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. ****** See skulking Truth to her old... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 Seiten
...higher than that wonderful ilight with which the "Dunciad" concludes :* — ' She comes, she comes 1 the sable throne behold Of Night primeval and of Chaos...clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away; AVit shoots in vain its momentary tires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As, one by one,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1910 - 480 Seiten
...higher than that wonderful flight with which the " Dunciad " concludes : — * " She comes, she comes 1 the sable throne behold Of Night primeval and of Chaos...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... | |
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