 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
 | Electronic journals - 1875 - 676 pages
...one, at dread Medea's (¡train, The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain." Dunciad, bk. iv. " Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." flunciad, last lines. "Ah. Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 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,...the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all. REMARKS. Hoarcth again to the skies. As prophecy hath evcrbwcsi of the chief provinces uf poe>y, our... | |
 | 1850 - 836 pages
...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 great Anarch lets the curtail! fall, Aud universal darkness buries ¡ill.'' In conclusion, I may be allowed to say a few... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1851 - 384 pages
...Thus at her felt approach, and secret might, Art after Art goes out, and all is night. See sculking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of casuistry...curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries all. 361 INDEX OF PERSONS AND MATTERS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM AND NOTES. The Numerals show the Book. —... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...and die. Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public name, nor private, dares to shine, Nor human spark is left,...the curtain fall, And universal Darkness buries all. We subjoin the Prefaces and Advertisem«nt3 prefixed to the different editions. It will be recollected... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...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,...lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all,"1 In these astonishing lines Pope reaches, I think, to the very greatest height which his sublime... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 342 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, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ; 655 And universal darkness buries all. TUB YAWH OF DULNESS AND ITS EFFECTS. BY THE AUTHOR, A DECLARATION.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 360 pages
...Dunciad.' " — BOSWELL. Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored, Light diea before thy unereating word ; Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." ' In these astonishing lines Pope reaches, I think, to the very greatest height which his sublime art... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1854 - 306 pages
...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,...lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all."1 In these astonishing lines Pope reaches, I think, to the very greatest height which his sublime... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 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. 1 ' Truth to her old cavern fled : ' alluding to the saying of Democritus, that Troth lay at the bottom... | |
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