 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.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 2511845Full view - About this book
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1862 - 438 pages
...Pope, Alexander, as the apotheosis of bigoted stupidity. " Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored, Light dies before thy uncreating word ; Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, — And Papal prohibition darkens all" ART. IV.— THE GROWTH OF THE EARLY ITALIAN POETRY. The Early Italian... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 712 pages
...dares to shine, Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine; Lo! Thy dread empire, Chaos, is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word, Thy hand, great...the curtain fall, And universal Darkness buries ail. compté les lampions, je connais les machines, j'ai touché la laborieuse mise en scène des apparitions... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 388 pages
...shine ; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restor'd ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand,...lets the curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries alL INDEX OF PERSONS AND MATTERS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM AND NOTES. The Numerals show the Book —... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 696 pages
...shine, Nor human spark is left, norglimpse divine; Lo! Thy dread empire, Chaos, is restor'd; Lightdies before thy uncreating word, Thy hand, great Anarch,...lets the curtain fall, And universal Darkness buries all. compté les lampions, je connais les machines, j'ai touché la laborieuse mise en scène des apparitions... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 698 pages
...dares to shine, Nor human spark is left, norglimpse divine; Lo! Thy dread empire, Chaos, is restor'dj Light dies before thy uncreating word, Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtaln fall, And universal Darkness buries all. compté les lampions, je connais les machines, j'ai... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | William Bradford Reed - 1864 - 46 pages
...the ftory of her birth." Or, in his lecture on Pope : " Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos ! is reftored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word. Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall, And univerfal darknefs buries all !" But to refume my perfonal recollections. He was too fincere'a man... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1864 - 324 pages
...cherish' d long." c. " Lo thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored ; Light dies before the unereating word : Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." d. " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting." e. " Like a poet hidden In the light of thought,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...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,...lets the curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries all. Book iv. Line 649. ELOISA TO ABELAKD. Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1865 - 858 pages
...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,...lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all 1 " In these astonishing lines, Pope reaches to the very greatest height which his sublime art... | |
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