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“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! 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.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Dunciad. Book iv. Line 649.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 466db2a93becf952da48b2dc74989ac7d1af570290594851182979b4d663508a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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