 Sense ! 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...  The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the ... - Page 314by Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 392 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 348 pages
...was worth while being a dunce then. Ah, Sir, hadst thou lived in those days ! (2) It is not worth (1) ["Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light...curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries all."] Mr. Lanzton informed me that he once related to Johnson (on the authority of Spence) that Pope himself... | |
 | Great Britain - 1862 - 454 pages
...consummation sublimely described by our own Pope, Alexander, as the apotheosis of bigoted stupidity. " Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored, - Light...hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, — And Papal prohibition darkens all." AHT. IV.— THE GROWTH OF THE EARLY ITALIAN POETRY. The Early Italian... | |
 | Alexander Pope, George Croly - 1835 - 312 pages
...of Metaphysic begs defence, 645 And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die...veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. 650 Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine ; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! Lo... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 320 pages
...of Metaphysic begs defence, 645 And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die...veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. 650 Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine ; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! Lo... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 320 pages
...Churacteristies, who has written ;•, formal treatise on virtue, to prove it not ooly real, Nor puhlic flame, nor private dares to shine ; Nor human spark...thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored ; Light dies hefore thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...fires8, And unawares Morality expires^. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine ; Nor Лч/шш "co_6a b XeYXg a d @ N #BYCYJc8f ^ d6f f TQ_R_S_ndc4 b b b8g Z d#S ea\1P dLY`^ Y ` `-WvU e eCgDgEg6b a Q # O \ \ ries as far as they should go. But this stopping, though at the extent of our ideas, was mistaken by... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...before us:— Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause and is no more. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And, unawares,...the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all. Now it seems to me to have been Tennyson's mission to meet this tendency of the age of which I have... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly 1 In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion...sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. Nor public Same nor private dares to shine, Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! Lo ! thy dread empire,... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 824 pages
...Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die....glimpse Divine ; Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restor'd ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ;... | |
 | England - 1845 - 812 pages
...Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematies fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die....glimpse Divine; Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restor'dl Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ;... | |
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