 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
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1859 - 504 pages
...defence*, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense I See Mystery to Mathematics fly?! In vain ! they gnze, / / q q XDs Ox, 1 lets the curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries all. rice as far as they should go. But this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 384 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 ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphyaic calls for aid on Sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die....thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great anarch ! lets thf curtain fall ; APPENDlX. i. PREFACE. PREFIXED TO THE FIVE FIRST IMPERFECT EDITIONS OF THE DUNCIAD,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 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....curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries all. ADDISON ANIi Next to the prose of Swift and the poetry of Tope, perhaps the portion of the literature... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1862 - 438 pages
...consummation sublimely described by our own Pope, Alexander, as the apotheosis of bigoted stupidity. " Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored, Light dies...hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, — And Papal prohibition darkens all" ART. IV.— THE GROWTH OF THE EARLY ITALIAN POETRY. The Early Italian... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 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 ;... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1863 - 360 pages
...repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the ' Dunciad.' " — BOSWELL. Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored, Light dies...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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 698 pages
...cause and is no more. Physic of metaphysic begs defence, And metaphysic calls for aid on sense.... Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares...nor private dares to shine, Nor human spark is left, norglimpse divine; Lo! Thy dread empire, Chaos, is restor'dj Light dies before thy uncreating word,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1863 - 696 pages
...of metaphysic begs defence, And metaphysic calls for aid on sense.... Religion blushing veils hér sacred fires, And unawares morality expires. Nor public...nor private dares to shine, Nor human spark is left, norglimpse divine; Lo! Thy dread empire, Chaos, is restor'd; Lightdies before thy uncreating word,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...o'er her head ; Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause and is no more. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And, unawares,...lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.2 1 ' He (Johnson) repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the... | |
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