 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1829
...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.2 1 ' He (Johnson) repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner,... | |
 | 1864
...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 480 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, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ; And universal darkness buries all. Book iv. Line 649. ELOISA TO ABELAKD. Heaven first taught letters... | |
 | 1865
...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 1 " Jo these astonishing lines, Pope reaches to the very 8.reategt... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1865
...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 1 " In these astonishing lines, Pope reaches to the very greatest... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 715 pages
...to shine ; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! Lp ! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall ; Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil -always builds a chapel there : And 't will be found... | |
 | 1867
...to shine j Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine I Lp ! 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. APPENDIX. i. PEEFACE. PREFIXED TO THE FIVE FIRST IMPERFECT EDITIONS... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 309 pages
...dares to shine, Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine. Lp! 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, * "He (Johnson)... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 526 pages
...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. INDEX PERSONS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM. The first number shows... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1847
...Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse 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 buries all.' It is certainly a mistake, however, to suppose, as many people... | |
| |
Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all. 
