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. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 2by Alexander Pope - 1807 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...below ! 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, 240 From thee to nothing. — On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours : Or VKK.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 pages
...etherial, human, angel, man; ' Beast, bird, fish, inseet, what no eye ean see, No glass ean reaeh ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...pow'rs •Were we to press, inferior might on ours 3 Or in the full ereation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great seale's destroy'd' From nature's... | |
| William Bullock - 1813 - 250 pages
...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 reach; from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing! Coryphene, or Dolphin. (Coryphrena Hippnris.) The Dolphin . is an inhabitant of the Mediterranean,... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...nothing.—On superior pow'rs Or in the full creation leave a void, Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From nature's chain whatever link you strike, 246 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each symptom in gradation roll Alike... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...below ! Vast chain of being, which from God began : Natures etherial, human ; angel, man ; Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from Infinite to thee. Trom thee to nothing. OB superior powers Were we to press, inferior might or» ours j Or in the full... | |
| DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 160 pages
...Around, how wide ! how deep extend helow ! Vast chain of heing ! which from God hegan. Nature's ethereal, human, angel, man. Beast, hird, fish, insect, what...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...below! Vast chain of beiug ! which from God began, Nature, ethereal, human, angtl, man : Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach...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... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 616 pages
...below ! 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...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... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1816 - 316 pages
...below ! 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. POPE. Obs.~-The principal object of the study of natural history, is to teach us the characteristics,... | |
| Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - 1817 - 452 pages
...nothing. " 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."* Yet this gradation deserves not the epithet regular or insensible. " The highest being not infinite... | |
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