 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - Страниц: 660
...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...Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of casuistry heaped o'er her head ; Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause and is... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - Страниц: 744
...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' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppress'd, Closed one... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1873 - Страниц: 590
...635 The sick'ning stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd one by one to everlasting rest; Thus at. her felt...might, Art after. Art goes out, and all is Night. 640 See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled4, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy,... | |
 | John Bascom - 1874 - Страниц: 348
...As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppressed, Closed one by one to everlasting rest ; Thus, at her fell approach and secret might, Art after Art goes out,...Mountains of casuistry heap'd o'er her head ! Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Religion, blushing, veils... | |
 | John Bascom - 1893 - Страниц: 458
...As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand oppressed, Closed one by one to everlasting rest ; Thus, at her fell approach and secret might, Art after Art goes out,...fled, Mountains of casuistry heap'd o'er her head 1 Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Religion,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - Страниц: 414
...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' eyes,...oppress'd, Closed, one by one, to everlasting rest ; — Tims, at her fell approach and secret might, Art after Art goes out, and all is night. See skiilking... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - Страниц: 312
...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...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 - Страниц: 466
...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....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... | |
 | 1877 - Страниц: 630
...strain, The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain ; As Argus' eyes by Hermes' wand opprest, Clos'd one by one to everlasting rest ; Thus at her felt...Mountains of casuistry heap'd o'er her head ! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs... | |
 | Robert William Dale - 1877 - Страниц: 344
...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 ; Thus at her...might, Art after art goes out, and all is night." Or if it is hardly fair to say that the presence of the drowsy goddess sinks their whole intellectual... | |
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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 sickening... 
