 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 strani
...obeys the power. 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...strain, The sick'ning stars fade off the ethereal plain; \s Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppress'd, Closed one by one to everlasting rest; Physic of metaphysic... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 strani
...THE DUNCIAD. 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...expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain, As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Closed one by... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 strani
...obeys the power. She conies ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its...expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest,687 Clos'd one... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 strani
...power. She comes ! she conies ! the sable throne behold * Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! liefore y arms she slipp'd like empty Or dreams, the vain...and thus with sighs replied : ' Fly"st thou, loved sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus* eyes3 by Hermes' wand opprest, Closed one by... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 strani
...Ami all its varying rainbows die away. Wii shoots in vain his momentary Irres, The meteor drops, anil in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars lade oft" the ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprcss'd, Closed one... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 strani
...power. She comes ! she comes ! lhc sable throne behold Of night primeval, and of Chaos old ! liefore her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying...expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppressed, Closed one... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 strani
...obeys the power. 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...expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest,687 Clos'd one... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 strani
...concludes 1 : — She comes, she comes ! the sable throne behold ! Of Night primaeval and of Chaos old ; Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its...sick'ning stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppress'd, Closed one by one to everlasting rest ; — Thus, at her fell approach... | |
 | 1865 - 226 strani
...catastrophe of the Dunciad, the empire of dnlness, a dreary reality — Before her, fancy's gilded elouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away ; Wit...expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Close one by... | |
 | 1865 - 838 strani
...1 the snble throne behold 1 Of night primeval and of Chaos old ; Before her, Fancy's gilded clonds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away , Wit...strain, The sick'ning stars fade off the ethereal plain ; 4 As Argus' eye, by Hermes' wand oppress'd, Closed one by one to everlasting rest ; — Thus, at... | |
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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 by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars... 
