Dulness o'er all possess'd her ancient right, Daughter of Chaos and eternal Night : Fate in their dotage this fair idiot gave, Gross as her sire, and as her mother grave, Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind, She ruled, in native anarchy, the mind. The Return of Chaos - Page 129by Charles Neeld Salter - 1897 - 286 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Pope, George Croly - 1835 - 312 pages
...mother grave ; Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind, 15 She ruled, in native anarchy, the mind. Still her old empire to restore she tries ; For, born a goddess, Dulness never dies. O thou ! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff, or Gulliver ! 20 Whether thou... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...her mother grave, Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind6, She ruled, in native anarchy, the mind 7. c / 0 thou ! whatever title please thine ear, hie unsuccessful writing». As the p Goddess beholding the... | |
| American periodicals - 1894 - 854 pages
...became conscious of the presence of bores. Pope sounded the first note of alarm in the " Dunciad : " — Still her old empire to restore she tries. For, born a goddess, Dulness never dies. The British essayists of the eighteenth century have suffered not at all from want of posthumous appreciation... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 pages
...her mother grave, Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind, 15 She rul'd, in native anarchy, the mind. Still her old Empire to restore she tries, For, born a Goddess, Dulness never dies. O Thou ! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff, or Gulliver! 20 Whether thou... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...her mother grave, Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind, She ruled, in native anarchy, the mind. Still her old empire to restore she tries, For, born a goddess, Dulness never dies. O thou ! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff , or Gulliver ! Whether thou choose... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...mother grave,2 Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind, 15 She ruled, in native anarchy, the mind. Still her old empire to restore she tries, For, born a goddess, Dulness never dies.3 O thou ! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaif, or Gulliver ! 20 Whether... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 pages
...her mother grave, Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind,3 She ruled, in native anarchy, the mind. Still her old empire* to restore she tries, For, born a goddess, Dulness never dies. 1 ' Say how the goddess,' &c. The poet ventureth to sing the action of the goddess; but the passion... | |
| Karl Marx - Europe - 1860 - 222 pages
...ЯЗесеппштв ajianteuffel betoíefen ^at. 9í ationa 1 5 eitungb, at ^оре'в Sßort bewahrheitet : Still her old empire to restore she tries, For born a goddess Dulness never dies. * unte^ettet рф Dope'S 9?е(ф ber Dulness con bent Э?с!ф ter 9îatio» naljeitung ЬаЬигф,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...her mother grave, Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind, She ruled, in native anarchy, the mind. Still her old empire to restore she tries, For, born a goddess, Dulness never dies. O thou ! whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff, or Gulliver !§ Whether thou... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...cttntinn hp wji| be npt to nii«titk« -ii« imiwrtance of many of the clmructuri, ui weli us ol'thi Still her old empire to restore she tries, For, born a goddess, Dulness never dies. Oh ilmu ! whatever title please thine ear-— Dean, Drapier, BickerslafT, or Gulliver ! 90 Whether... | |
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