 In vain, in vain — the all-composing hour Resistless 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 decay, And all its varying rainbows die away....  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2481845Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1796 - 480 pages
...The venal quiet, and intrance the dull ; Till drown'd was Sense, and Shame, and Right, and Wrong 625 O sing, and hush the nations with thy song ! In vain,...throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 650 Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 184 pages
...The venal quiet, and entrance the dull ; Till drown'd was sense, and shame, and right, and wrong 625 O sing, and hush the nations with thy song ! ******...throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 i Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 196 pages
...The venal quiet, and entrance the dull ; Till drown'd was sense, and shame, and right, and wrong 625 O sing, and hush the nations with thy song ! ******...pow'r. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Tight primeval, and of Chaos old 1 630 Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 562 pages
...drown' d was Sense, and Shame, and Right, anil Wrong — 625 1 sing, and hush the nations with tby song! In vain, in vain — the all-composing hour Resistless falls : the Muse obeys the pow'r. lie comes ! she comes ! the sable throne bebold >f Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 639 cfore her... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...with thy song! In vain, in vain, the all-composing hour Tlesistless falls : the muse obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 REMARKS. Ver. 620. Wits have short mem'ries,] This seems to be the reason why the poets, where... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...ambition lull, The venal quiet, and entrance the dull ; Till drown'd was sense, and shame, and right, an wrong — O sing, and hush the nations with thy song...all-composing hour -Resistless falls: the Muse obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 63( Before... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...! ********** In vain, in vain, the all-composing hour Resistless falls : the M use obeys the power. She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rain-bows die away. Wit shoots in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 374 pages
...was sense, and shame, and right, and O sing, and hush the nations with thy song ! 626 * * * * * , * In vain, in vain, — the all-composing hour Resistless...the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chans old ! 630 Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit... | |
 | 1845 - 808 pages
...Sense and Shame, and Right and Wrong O sing, and bush the nations with thy song ! * * * i »'* , « In vain, in vain — the all-composing hour Resistless...falls ; the Muse obeys the pow'r. " She comes ! she conies ! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old ! Before her fancy's gilded clonds... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1818 - 396 pages
...dreary interval, and a faint voice remind some future age, that Italy was once the land of poets. " 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, and of Chaos old ! Before... | |
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