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" The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour : Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold. "
The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last ... - Page 245
by Alexander Pope - 1760
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New York City Financial Crisism Hearings Before ..., 94-1 on S.1833, S.1862 ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - 1975 - 848 pages
...in 1970. Alexander Pope's apt description of what happened next is found in the Dunciad: "Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of night to blot out order and extinguish light" After a year-long study of the implementation of the MBR system by the New York State...
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Valuation in Criticism and Other Essays

F. R. Leavis - Fiction - 1986 - 380 pages
...Sick was the sun, the owl forsook his bower, The moon-struck prophet felt the madding hour: Then rose the seed of chaos, and of night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold....
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Lesen und Schreiben im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert: Studien zu ihrer Bewertung ...

Paul Goetsch - Authorship - 1994 - 318 pages
...II, 359f.) bis zur Miltonschen Beschwörung eines endzeitlichen Aufruhrs aus dem Abgrund Then rose the Seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out Order, and extinguish Light (B IV, 13f.)bedeutet der Fortschritt der literarischen Korruption dasfiat nox\ für...
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Imagining Monsters: Miscreations of the Self in Eighteenth-Century England

Dennis Todd - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 364 pages
...make us forget that Pope speaks of this apocalypse quite differently elsewhere in the poem. Then rose the Seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out Order, and extinguish Light, Of dull and venal a new World to mold, And bring Saturnian days of Lead and Gold....
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Physically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Physics and Astronomy

C.C. Gaither - Science - 1997 - 510 pages
...their causes sleep . . . The Complete Poetical Works of POPE The Duncaid Book 1, 1. 55-6 Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out Order, and extinguish Light . . . The Complete Poetical Works of POPE The Duncaid Book IV, 1. 13-14 Lo! thy dread...
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Selected Poetry

Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...Sick was the sun, the owl forsook his bower, The moonstruck prophet felt the madding hour: Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order, and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold....
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More Solid Learning: New Perspectives on Alexander Pope's Dunciad

Catherine Ingrassia, Claudia N. Thomas - Poetry - 2000 - 262 pages
...Dunciad (1742), Pope turns the meretricious association into a monumental emblem: Then rose [Dulness] the Seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out Order, and extinguish Light, Of dull and venal a new World to mold, And bring Saturnian days of Lead and Gold....
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More Solid Learning: New Perspectives on Alexander Pope's Dunciad

Catherine Ingrassia, Claudia N. Thomas - Poetry - 2000 - 262 pages
...Dunciad (1742), Pope turns the meretricious association into a monumental emblem: Then rose [Dulness] the Seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out Order, and extinguish Light, Of dull and venal a new World to mold, And bring Saturnian days of Lead and Gold....
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One Voice: Pacifist Writings from the Second World War

Vera Brittain - Science - 2005 - 212 pages
...Vision Publishing Company, London. Seed of Chaos What Mass Bombing Really Means Vera Brittain Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order and extinguish light. Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV, L. 13 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?...
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How to Read a Poem

Terry Eagleton - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 193 pages
...was the sun, the owl forsook his bower, The moon-struck prophet felt the maddening hour: Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order and extinguish light, Of dull and venal a new world to mould, And bring Saturnian days of lead and gold....
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