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... Studies in English Literature - 第 71 頁John Dennis 著 - 1876 - 444 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 頁
...ever mounted higher than that wonderful flight with which the "Dunciad" concludes : — * " She comes, she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval...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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 頁
...ever mounted higher than that wonderful flight with which the "Dunciad" concludes :— * " She comes, she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval...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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 414 頁
...ever mounted higher than that wonderful flight with which the "Dunciad" concludes : — * " She comes, she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval...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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 頁
...mounted higher than that wonderful flight with which the " Dunciad " concludes : — * " She comes, she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval...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 頁
...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 頁
...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 night primeval,...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,... | |
| John Rylands Library - 1922 - 592 頁
...gods, can be invoked to dispossess them. Philology, that is, must play the part of Medea, and then One by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain. Apollo is Zeus, and Dionysos is Zeus, as surely as Zeus is Zeus. But is Zeus, then,... | |
| Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 頁
...falls: The Muse obeys the Pow'r. She comes! she comes! the sable Throne behold Of Night Primaeval, and of Chaos old! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds...expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th'ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd one by one... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 頁
...resulting disintegration of civilization: She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold Of Night primaeval and of Chaos old! Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds...Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drnps, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dre^d Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off... | |
| F. R. Leavis - 1986 - 380 頁
...line. 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...dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand opprest, Closed one by one to everlasting rest;... | |
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