 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...Sick was the sun, the owl forsook his bower, The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour: Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...Chaps and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light. Of dull and venal a new world to mould, 10 -, REMARKS. This book may properly be distinguished from tlie former, by the name of the Greater Dunciad,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 234 pages
...Chaos and of Ni TO Mot out Order, and extinguish Ligh 3f dull and venal* a new worldt to mould, \nd bring Saturnian days of lead and gold. She mounts the throne, her head a cloud conceal'd, 'n broad effulgence all below reveal'd, 'Tis thus aspiring Dulness ever shines) Soft on her lap her... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 228 pages
...Sick was the sun, the owl forsook his bower, The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, REMARKS. (what in ever agreeable to Dullness) his high respect for antiquity and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Sick was the sun, the owl forsook his bower. The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour: Then rose peculiar will the gods afford To thee, the Ťon of Jov extinguish light. Of dull and venal a new world to mould. And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold.... | |
 | Satire, English - 1831 - 790 pages
...and true and Of dull and venal* a new worldt to mould, And bring Saturnian daya of lead and gold.t She mounts the throne : her head a cloud conceal'd,...In broad effulgence all below reveal'd ('Tis thus aspiring Dulness ever shines,) Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.S Beneath her footstool.il... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1835 - 382 pages
...and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light,14 Of dull and venal a new world to mould,15 And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold. She mounts...In broad effulgence all below reveal'd ; ('Tis thus aspiring Dulness ever shines :) Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. Beneath her footstool Science... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 320 pages
...Sick was the sun, the owl forsook his bower, The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light ; Of dull and venal a new world to mould, 15 And bring Saturnian days of lead and... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Croly - 1835 - 312 pages
...Sick was the sun, the owl forsook his bower, The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light ; Of dull and venal a new world to mould, 15 And bring Saturnian days of lead and... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 824 pages
...added to the Dunciad a Fourth Book. In it there was one line, and one line only, about Colley Cibber. " She mounts the throne : her head a cloud conceal'd,...In broad effulgence all below reveal'd, ('Tis thus aspiring Dulness ever shines,) Soft on her lap her Laureate Son reclines." Dr Johnson calls that an... | |
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The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold. 
