 See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel,...  The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 163de Sir Richard Phillips - 1816 - 317 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...lessening down VARIATIONS. Ver. 238.] Ed. 1st. Ethereal essence, spirit, substance, man. — Warburton. Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, 240 From thee to nothing! On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours : Or in the full... | |
 | Samuel Shuckford - 1848 - 564 pages
...may go Around its width, its depth extend below. Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Nature's ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect,...glass can reach ! from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing11. The poet further expatiates upon the subject : Far as creation's ample range extends The... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, hird, fish, insect, which no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from 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,... | |
 | Samuel Anthony Barnett - 1988 - 410 pages
...before. 6 Evolution and natural selection Vast chain of being! which from God began, Nature's 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... | |
 | Reinhold Grimm, Jost Hermand - 1989 - 136 pages
...commentateurs anglais de Newton (Paris, 1938). 47 Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, 8: 233-46: "See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, / All matter...glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, / From thee to Nothing.—On superior powers / Were we to press, inferior might on ours: / Or in the full creation... | |
 | Charles Taylor - 1992 - 628 pages
...this vision of order. In continuity with a long tradition, he sees it as a "great chain of being": Vast chain of Being! which from God began, Natures...reach; from Infinite to thee, from thee to Nothing. Or again: All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul71 This... | |
 | David Carroll - 1990 - 344 pages
...perfection had a place for all things, but, more importantly, sought to keep everything in its place. Vast chain of Being! which from God began, Natures...reach; from 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,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...lives along the line: (Fr. Epistle I) 72 Vast chain of Being, which from God began. Natures aethereal, arn and stack and tree. Farewell to Severn shore....For I come home no more. 29 "My mother thinks us l — (Fr. Epistle I) 73 From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks... | |
 | Douglas K. Candland - 1993 - 432 pages
...contemporary legal and religious system). Thereby to us, knowingly or not, as Alexander Pope writes: Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures...reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. — From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth of thousandths, breaks the chain alike.5 Two... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - 1993 - 676 pages
...Alexander Pope wrote in his Essay on Man4: Vast Chain of Being! which from God began. Natures aetherial, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what...reach; from Infinite to thee. From thee to nothing. - On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours: Or in the full creation leave a void.... | |
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