...poet's verse ever mounted higher than that wonderful flight with which the "Dunciad" concludes : — * " She comes, she comes ! the sable throne behold Of...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...

...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...

...himself in 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...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,...

...British senate was once famous. " Before them Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rambows die away ; Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops and in a flash expires." We have now, however, said enough to prove our point, which is this, that owing to a variety of causes,...

...ever mounted higher than that wonderful flight with which the " Dunciad" concludes : — * "She come?, 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 oppress'd, Closed, one by one, to everlasting rest...

...thy song ! 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 ! eso Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in...

...a passage is the description of the approach of the empire of Dulness, at the end of the poem : — She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of...its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain his momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. »»»«»* See skulking Truth to her...

...a passage is the description of the approach of the empire of Dulness, at the end of the poem : — She comes ! she comes ! the sable throne behold Of...its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain his momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. ****** See skulking Truth to her old...

...higher than that wonderful ilight with which the "Dunciad" concludes :* — ' She comes, she comes 1 the sable throne behold Of Night primeval and of Chaos...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,...

...higher than that wonderful flight with which the " Dunciad " concludes : — * " She comes, she comes 1 the sable throne behold Of Night primeval and of Chaos...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...