Note 131 — THE ART OF PAINTING;
Reading edition
Dryden probably recollected, particularly, Lee’s famous rant at the conclusion of the fourth act of Œdipus:
Fall darkness then, and everlasting night Shadow the globe; may the sun never dawn, The silver moon be blotted from her orb! And for an universal rout of nature, Through all the inmost chambers of the sky May there not be a glimpse, one starry spark, But gods meet gods, and jostle in the dark; That jars may rise, and wrath divine be hurled, Which may to atoms shake the solid world! Vol. VI. p. 206.