 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 sickening...  Is Life Worth Living? - Сторінка 101автори: William Hurrell Mallock - 1880 - 323 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 стор.
...gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away; AVit shoots in vain its momentary tires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As, one by one, at dread Media's strain The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppressed,... | |
 | John Bascom - 1874 - 348 стор.
...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. * English Humorists. \ Ibid. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th'... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1874 - 448 стор.
...attempts the sublime, his epithets become curiously unpoetical, as where he says, in the Dunciad, " As, one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off the ethereal plain." And not seldom he is satisfied with the music of the verse without much regard to fitness of imagery... | |
 | 1875 - 682 стор.
...have been extinguished, until our entire system had " melted into the infinite azure of the past." " As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade from the ethereal plain, As Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand oppressed, Closed one by one to everlasting... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 стор.
...falls : the Muse obeys the power. 620 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary...dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Closed one by one to everlasting rest... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 стор.
...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...dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, Close one by one to everlasting rest... | |
 | Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 стор.
...Of Night Primaeval, 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...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... | |
 | 1989 - 204 стор.
...Of Night Primaeval, 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. 158 As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sick'ning stars fade off th'ethereal plain ; As Argus'... | |
 | John Rylands Library - 1922 - 592 стор.
...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, female as well... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 стор.
...Of Night Primaeval, 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...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... | |
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