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 ... - Página 314por Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 392 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Henry Allon - 1847 - 600 páginas
...on sense! See mystery to mathematics fly! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Eeligion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares morality...divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored! Light flies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1846 - 320 páginas
...Characteristics, who has written a formal treatise on virtue, to prove it not only real, hut duraNor public flame, nor private dares to shine ; Nor human...thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored ; Light dies hefore thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall. And universal darkness... | |
| John Wilson - 1846 - 360 páginas
...Morality expires. Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restor'd; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse Divine; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great...curtain fall; And universal Darkness buries All." Mr. Bowles, himself a true poet, thinks the Fourth Book the best. " The objects of satire," he says,... | |
| Johann Jakob von Tschudi - 1847 - 742 páginas
...the honour of various princes, nobles, and other persons." Here is the key to the whole proceeding. " Light dies before thy uncreating word ! Thy hand,...curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." The king was sufficiently devoid of feeling to witness, behind a. curtain, the torturing of the prisoner,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 442 páginas
...soul is naturally mortal. Thus, between their different reasonings, these See Mystery to Mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die....veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. 650 Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine ; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! Lo... | |
| 1847 - 610 páginas
...Physic of melaphysic begs defence, And metaphysic calls for aid on sense ! See mystery ю mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die....blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares morality eipires. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine ; Nor human spark is left, nur glimpse divine... | |
| 1848 - 574 páginas
...her sacred tires; And unawares Morality expires. No public flame, nor private, dares to shine ; No human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread...restored; LIGHT dies before thy uncreating word. Thy hand, greta Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries all ! " The opinions promulgated... | |
| 1850 - 836 páginas
...Physic of mdaphyiic begs defence, And metaphysic calls for aid on sense. See mystery to mathematics fly, In vain they gaze, turn giddy, rave and die !...her sacred fires, And unawares morality expires. Nor pablic (lame, nor prirate dares to shine, Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine. Lo ! thy dread... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 páginas
...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....veils her sacred fires, And unawares morality expires. 650 Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine ; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! Lo... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...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...curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all." ** In these astonishing lines Pope reaches, I think, * "He (Johnson) repeated to us, in his forcible... | |
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