 Nor public flame, nor private, 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 curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 152by Alexander Pope - 1853Full view - About this book
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Fore-edge paintings - 1818 - 600 pages
...land of poets. • Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. Nor public flame nor private dares to shine, Nor human...: Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness huries all.'' Stanza CLXXIII. Lo, Nemi ! nav eiled in the woody hills. Stanza... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Fore-edge paintings - 1818 - 596 pages
...land of poets. 326 Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. Nor public flame nor private dares to shine, Nor human...: Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all."' Stanza CLXXIII. Lo, Nemi ! navelled in the woody hills. Stanza... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Italian literature - 1818 - 396 pages
...; Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. Nor public fame nor private dares to shine, Nor human spark is left,...: Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all. 206 Stanza CLXXIII. Lo, JVemi .' navelled in the woody hilli. Stanza... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Italian literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...meteor drops, 'and in a flash expires. Nor public flame nor private dares to shine, Nor human .-park is left, nor glimpse divine. Lo ! thy dread empire,...: Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.'' Stanza CLXXIII. Lo, Nemi ! naveUed in the woody hills, Stanza... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 394 pages
...favour: but they endeavour to exclude him from every thing we can point out, to discover him. They See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze,...Glimpse divine! Lo ! thy dread Empire, CHAOS ! is restor'd ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 390 pages
...favour: but they endeavour to exclude him from every thing we can point out, to discover him. They See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze,...Glimpse divine! Lo ! thy dread Empire, CHAOS ! is restor'd ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ;... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 294 pages
...turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor...word : Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all. INDEX OF PERSONS, CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM. The Numerals shmv the... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor...word : Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall: And universal darkness buries all. INDEX OF PERSONS, CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM. The Numerals show the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. outh, of lightsome vacant heart. Whose every day was...[shrew, Hears not the voice of nurth : the shrill-tongu' restor'd, Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...talents, and patriotism, the names of whom he has immortalized in his works, would seriously have said, Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine, Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine f A due attention to this subject might have superseded the solemn remark with which Mr. Bowles has... | |
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