 | John Morley - 1894 - 630 pàgines
...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 by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus'... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 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 sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus'... | |
 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pàgines
...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 sickening stars fade off the etherial plain ; As Argus'... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 496 pàgines
...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 by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus's... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 pàgines
...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 by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus'... | |
 | Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 pàgines
...and of Chaos old! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows 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 th'ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes... | |
 | 1989 - 204 pàgines
...rather superficial attractiveness, which merges into the firework-display suggested by the next couplet: Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. To that succeeds the solemn note of the opening, with an extended, classically inspired simile in the... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 pàgines
...and of Chaos old! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying Rain-bows 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 th'ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes... | |
 | F. R. Leavis - 1986 - 380 pàgines
...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 by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain; As Argus'... | |
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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 stars... 
