 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.  The American Commonwealth - Stran 546avtor: James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1888Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 strani
...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 ! A. Pope. ALEXANDER'S FEAST; OE, THE POWER OF MBSIC. (A Sony in honour of St. Cecilia's Day, 1697.)... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 strani
...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. The Dunciad. Boole iv. Line 649. Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banished lover,... | |
 | Samue Harris (D.D.) - 1892 - 606 strani
...motion, nor of the correlation of forces, nor of one's own existence, nor of any reality whatever. "Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." All, then, that the objection can establish is, that our knowledge, because our minds are finite, is... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 strani
...glimpse divine. Lo I thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored, Light dies before thy uncrcating word ; Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." t In these astonishing lines Pope reaches, I think, to the very greatest height which his sublime art... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 strani
...nor glimpse divine ! Lol 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. 576 Pope : Dunciad. Bk. iv. Line 649. CHARACTER — sec Fickleness, Detraction, Reputation. There is... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 strani
...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."*) In these astonishing lines Pope reaches, I think, to the very greatest height which his sublime art... | |
 | Stephen Roth, Stephen Roth Institute - 2002 - 364 strani
...that chaos may return: Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restor'd Light dies before thy uncreating word Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all. 27 Cosmogonic myths all seem to share a negative appraisal of chaos, either as "yawning gap," "confusion,"... | |
 | Ellen G. Friedman, Richard Martin - 1995 - 246 strani
...do not exist." Compare Pope's version, articulated at another moment of perceived cultural crisis: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And Universal Darkness buries All.5 And again, set beside this Beckett's radical telescoping of reality: "Soon there will be nothing... | |
 | Nicholas Till - 1995 - 404 strani
...morality expires . . . Lo thy dread Empire, CHAOS! is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And Universal Darkness buries All.1 The Queen 'Of Night primeval and of Chaos old* still lurks in the underground vaults ('in unterirdischen... | |
 | Robert Alter - 1996 - 264 strani
...of Pope's Dunciad: Lo! thy dread Empire, CHAOS! is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And Universal Darkness buries All. (IV:653-656) Put out the Light is also exactly the sentence Othello says, twice, in the brief soliloquy... | |
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