Chaos. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Chaos


For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And beauty dead, black chaos comes again. Shakespeare.—Venus and Adonis, Stanza 170.	1
Excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again. Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (Othello’s love for his Wife.)	2
But, should he hide his face, th’ astonish’d sun, And all th’ extinguish’d stars, would loosening reel Wide from their spheres, and chaos come again. Thomson.—Summer, Line 182.	3
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light, Indulge dread chaos and eternal night. Pope.—The Dunciad, Book IV. Line 1.	4
Then rose the seed of chaos, and of night, To blot out order, and extinguish light. Pope.—The Dunciad, Book IV. Line 13.	5
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. Pope.—The Dunciad, Book IV. Line 653.	6
Eldest night and chaos ancestors of nature. Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book II. Line 894.	7