...history as if the Christian Church had never come to leaven it: Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great...curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.'' Till the whole was leavened. . . . When it is grown up, it is greater than all herbs. . . . Are we...

...left, nor Glimpse divincl Lo! Thy dread Empire, CHAOS! Is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncteating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And Universal Darkness buries All. (Bk. 4,ll. o43-5o) o Anti-Wisdom, the Anti-Logos that comes through lifted gates like a false messiah...

...apotheosis precipitates the return to primordial Chaos: 'Lo! thy dread Empire, Chaos! is restor'd; / Light dies before thy uncreating word: /Thy hand,...curtain fall; /And Universal Darkness buries All' (lV. 653-6). Cibber, as both a popular playwright and as the King's laureate, stands for the league...

...1921-1952) is taken from Alexander Pope's following quotation: Lo! thy dreed Empire, 'Chaos! is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great...the curtain fall; And Universal Darkness buries All. In his introduction to the book, Chaudhuri makes his intention as well as the scope of his autobiography...

...Double Concerto, whose fade-out ending was inspired by the closing of Pope's great poem The Dunciad - 'Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; /And Universal Darkness buries all.' Here the physical process being metaphorized is nothing less than entropy itself, the winding down...

...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 All. (4.651-56) The characteristic movement of Dulness and her dunces is circular, rising and falling, moving...

...extinguished by the Word of uncreative dunces and sophists. Lo! thy dread Empire, Chaosl is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great...the curtain fall, And universal Darkness buries All. The Dunciad, 4.653-6 A university that trains electricians and industrial managers instead of educating...

...momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires . . . Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored, Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great...the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all. (627-34, 653-6) What Roman satirist ever wrote anything like that?4' After the eighteenth century the...

...and meaningless chaotic void. To revert to Pope once more: Lo! thy dread Empire, CHAOS! is restor'd; Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great...the curtain fall, And universal Darkness buries All. Those words clearly resonate for us nearly three hundred years on, and the question here is whether,...

...36, 6-7. 19. The lines from Alexander Pope's Dunciad read, Lo! they dread Empire, CHAOS is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great...the curtain fall; And Universal Darkness buries All. In keeping with the comic premise of The Anarchiad, the fictional editor claims that Pope's lines were...