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" 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 314
by Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 392 pages
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The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review, Volume 45

Unitarianism - 1871 - 678 pages
...Physic of metaphysic begs defense, And metaphysic calls for aid on sense ! See mystery to mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die....; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! Lo ! thyxlread empire, Chaos ! is restored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word ! Thy hand, great Anarch...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1870 - 360 pages
...head ; Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause and is no more. Eeligion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And, unawares, Morality...shine, Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine. 1 "He (Johnson) repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the ' Dunciad.'...
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The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review, Volume 45

Unitarianism - 1871 - 668 pages
...Physic of metaphysic begs defense, 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." THE ANNEXATION SCHEME. There are abundant indications that the President is shamefully imposed upon in...
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 568 pages
...cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Hetaphysic calls for aid on sense ! . . . Religion blushing veils her sacred fires, And unawares...curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries all. ' ' 1 The Dmiciad, the end. The last scene ends with noise, cymbals and trombones, crackers and fireworks....
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History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun, Volume 2

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 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...curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries all. ' 1 1 The Dunciad, the end. The last scene ends with noise, cymbals and trombones, crackers and fireworks....
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 564 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 human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! Lo i thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great anarch...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...See Mystery to Mathematics fly! In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion blushingveils the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know...the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells EBEV; FaBoPV; FiP; NOBE; NOEC; NoP; SCV Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady 3 Is it, in Heav'n,...
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Re-siting Queen's English: Text and Tradition in Post-colonial Literatures ...

Gillian Whitlock, Helen Tiffin - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 228 pages
...unchecked: Thus at her felt approach, and secret might, An after An goes out, and all is Night. [...] Nor public Flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor...nor Glimpse divine'. Lo! thy dread Empire, CHAOS! is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Meditations on Quixote, "Preliminary Meditation" (1914). 7 Lo! thy dread empire. Chaos! is restor'd; harm: alas, nor could Thy death yet do them any good. ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1 744). English salricial poet. The Dundad, bk. 4. 8 Chaos is a name for any order...
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Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse and Romantic Representation

Steven Goldsmith - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 346 pages
...dares to shine; Nor human Spark is left, nor Glimpse divinel Lo! thy dread Empire, CHAOS! is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great...the curtain fall; And Universal Darkness buries All. 18 The human spark expires; the remainder is feminine; the implication that woman is outside the human...
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