See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo!... The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce - Page 352by Alexander Pope - 1863Full view - About this book
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...to shine, Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine. Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored, Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand,...the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all. 206 Stanza CLXXIII. Lo, JVemi .' navelled in the woody hilli. Stanza CLXXIV. And near Albano's scarce... | |
| John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Fore-edge paintings - 1818 - 600 pages
...to shine, Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine. Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored, Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand,...Anarch ! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness huries all.'' Stanza CLXXIII. Lo, Nemi ! nav eiled in the woody hills. Stanza CLXXIV. And near Albany's... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 390 pages
...giddy, rave, and die. Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. 650 Nor public Flame, nor private, dares to shine ; Nor...word : Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ; 655 And universal Darkness buries All. REMARKS. endeavour to make us easy, by telling us, he is every... | |
| Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand,...And universal darkness buries all. INDEX OF PERSONS, CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM. The Numerals show the Book—The Figures the Verse. AMBROSE Philips, i. 105.... | |
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...dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand,...And universal darkness buries all. INDEX OF PERSONS, CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM. The Numerals shmv the Book—The Figures the Verse. AMBROSE Philips, i. 105.... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematies fly 1 is fully blown, Or half its worth disclos'd. Strange...Hears not the voice of nurth : the shrill-tongu'd O о ; l . • I GAY— AD 1688-1732. RURAL SPORTS: A GEORGIC. INSCRIBED TO MR. POPE, 1713. • ' —... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...left, nor glimpse divine ! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored! , Light dies hefore thy tmcreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all. Ver. 641. h 'th to her old cavern Bed,] Alludinjf to the saring of Democritue, that ' Troth lay at... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 228 pages
...shine : Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand,...curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries all. REMARKS. of these her false supports in the present; of which it would be endless to recount the particulars.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...glimpse divine ! Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored ; Light dies before thy и п creating e Of wondering ages, and the world's amaze ! Thus having said, the father of the fire* REMARKS. soareth again to the skies. As prophecy hath ever been on« of the chief province! of poeey,... | |
| Satire, English - 1831 - 790 pages
...shine : Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine 1 Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos F is restored : Light dies before thy uncreating word :Thy hand, great...curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries all. that our poet was of very different sentiments from the au* thor of the Characteristics, who 1ms written... | |
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