 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 str.
...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 str.
...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 - 288 str.
...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 - 1807 - 474 str.
...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, Thomas Park - 1808 - 388 str.
...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 str.
...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 str.
...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 str.
...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 - 396 str.
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 390 str.
...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, • 635 The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As... | |
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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... 
