 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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 223by Alexander Pope - 1869 - 485 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 pages
...thisearth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Afound, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being...ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, which no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; 240 From thee to nothing.— On... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 264 pages
...extend below ; \ist chain of being ! which from God began, Nature ethereal, human ; angel, man ; Beaat, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass...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, Where, one... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1836 - 414 pages
...it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass. • • • * • • Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around,...wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! \4hich from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 276 pages
...how deep extend below : Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Nature ethereal, human ; nngel, man ; Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,...glass can 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...VIII. See, through this air, this ocean, and this All matter quick, and bursting into birth, [earth, Above, how high, progressive life may go ! Around,...infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. — On superior powere, Were we tu press, inferior might on ours : От in the full creation leave a void, Where, one... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 276 pages
...CUNNINGHAM. SECTION XX. The order of nature. SEE, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All mutter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive...below : Vast chain of being ! which from God began. Nature ethereal, human ; angel, man ; * Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can se«, No glass can... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 pages
...discharge. LESSON CLXXI. Order of Nature. — POPE. SEE, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above,...may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below 1 Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 pages
...luxuriance of poetry by Pope, in his Essay on Man : — " See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above,...reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing." Much has been said respecting the origin of this philosophical poem, inferior to no work of its kind,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1842 - 358 pages
...that between the greatest of finite existences " See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick and bursting into birth ; Above how...below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began — Nature's ethereal, human angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 pages
...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold! See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above,...life may go! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ' All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul ; That, chang'd... | |
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