 Vast chain of being! which from God began Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. On superior...  L'essai sur l'homme - Page 28de Alexander Pope - 1821 - 207 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Stephen Jay Gould - 1985 - 484 pages
...castle — for any attempt to rise will disrupt the universe's established order. Again, Alexander Pope: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. In this essay I shall analyze the arguments presented in England's last influential defense of the... | |
 | Samuel Anthony Barnett - 1988 - 410 pages
...aetherial, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach . . . From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. Alexander Pope 'One hundred years ago', a zoologist tells us, 'Charles Darwin bequeathed to us a theory... | |
 | Reinhold Grimm, Jost Hermand - 1989 - 136 pages
...to thee, / From thee to Nothing.—On superior powers / Were we to press, inferior might on ours: / Or in the full creation leave a void, / Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed: / From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, / Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain... | |
 | Paola Colaiacomo - 1989 - 404 pages
...from God began Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike»12, per Urizen lo stabilirsi di una relazione è il risultato di una lotta: «3. Por he strove... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1990 - 728 pages
...el universo Carta 1 , líneas 233-236 On superior pow'rs Where we to press, inferior might on ours: Or in the full creation leave a Void. Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd. 16 Y líneas 239-242 And ifeach System in gradation roll Alike essential to th'amazing whole: The least... | |
 | David Carroll - 1990 - 344 pages
...Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. On superior powers Were we to press, inferior might on ours: Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain... | |
 | S. Hutton - 1989 - 278 pages
...plenitude.' Pope includes the notion in his Essay on Man: '...all must full or not coherent be,' and 'From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.' See Lovejoy. Chain of Being, 60 and passim. 46. More, DD. 1 :502. Glanvill's exposition of pre-existence... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee. From thee to Nothing! — (Fr. Epistle I) 73 From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. (Fr. Epistle I) 74 All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is. and God the soul;... | |
 | Francis Bulhof - 1993 - 260 pages
...dat de op zichzelf volmaakte schepping geheel van de sterkte van de zwakste schakel afhankelijk is: From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth...if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th'amazing whole; The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.... | |
 | G. A. Rosso - 1993 - 220 pages
...aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect! what no eye can see, No glass can reach! . . . Where, one step broken the great scale's destroy'd:...strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. (1:237-47) The chain runs from the cosmos to society to the mind; when any link snaps, the whole metaphysic... | |
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