| John Bell - 1796 - 480 pàgines
...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 drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, ., 635 Ttf^ick'ning stars fade oif the ethereal plain; As Argus's... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 184 pàgines
...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 drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, 635 The sick'ning stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus'... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pàgines
...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 sickening stars fade off the' etherial plain ; As Argus'... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1807 - 288 pàgines
...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 drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, 686 The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus'... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 pàgines
...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 sickening stars fade off the" ethereal plain ; As Argus'... | |
| James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, 635 The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus'... | |
| 1845 - 808 pàgines
...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 drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus's... | |
| John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1818 - 596 pàgines
...still disperse his liberal opinions through his engaging history. The literary journal of Lombanly is revised by the pensioners of the court ; yet, in...public flame nor private dares to shine, Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine. Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored, Light dies before thy... | |
| John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1818 - 396 pàgines
...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 empire,... | |
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