 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 Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored;...  POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD - Strona 115autor: THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - Liczba stron: 332
...expires. Nor public flame, nor private , dares to shine, Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine. Lp! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored, Light dies before...lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all."** In these astonishing lines Pope reaches, I think, * "He (Johnson) repeated to us, in his forcible... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - Liczba stron: 360
...melodious manner, the concluding lines of the ' Duuciad.' " — BOSWELL. Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos, U restored, Light dies before thy uncreating word ;...lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." ' In these astonishing lines Pope reaches, I think, to the very greatest height which his sublime... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - Liczba stron: 336
...for aid on 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 name, nor private, dares to shine, Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine. Lo ! thy dread empire,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - Liczba stron: 306
...cause and is no more. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. No public flame, nor private, dares to shine, Nor human...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - Liczba stron: 512
...for aid on sense ! See mystery to mathematics fly! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and dies, Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares...uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain faU » And universal darkness buries all. ESSAi ON CRITICISM. [WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1709.] PART I. INTRODUCTION.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - Liczba stron: 362
...giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. eso Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine ; Nor...lets the curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries all. 1 ' Truth to her old cavern fled : ' alluding to the saying of Democritus, that Troth lay at the... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - Liczba stron: 428
...for aid on SENSE ! See MYSTERY to MATHEMATICS fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. RELIGION, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares...lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all. POPE. 43. — VICE AND VIRTUE. FOOLS but too oft into the notion fall, That Vice or Virtue there... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - Liczba stron: 360
...concluding lines of the ' Dunciad.' " — BoSWELt. Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored, Ijght dies before thy uncreating word ; Thy hand, great...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - Liczba stron: 504
...for aid on Sense I See Mystery to Mathematics fly?! In vain ! they gnze, turn giddy, rave, and die. s a j7t x, 1 lets the curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries all. rice as far as they should go. But this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - Liczba stron: 384
...for aid on sense ! See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares...glimpse divine ! Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restor'd ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ;... | |
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