...below! Vast chain of being: which from God begans Nature's 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 step...

...I) 72 Vast chain of Being, which from God began. Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, to Severn shore. Terence, look your last at me, 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...

...Man4: Vast Chain of Being! which from God began. Natures aetherial, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see. No glass can reach;...a void. Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy 'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain...

...writes: 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. — From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth of thousandths, breaks the chain alike.5 Two...

...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:...Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. (1:237-47) The chain runs from the cosmos to society to the...

...below! Vast chain of Being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, inan, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thec to Nothing. — On superior powers Were we to press, inferior might on ours: Or in the full creation...

...Being: Vast chain of Being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect! what no eye can see, No glass can reach!...Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. The restriction on upward mobility within the Chain has a socio-economic...

...Alexander Pope's often-quoted lines written early in the eighteenth century on the "great chain of being" - "one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd; / From...Nature's chain whatever link you strike, / Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike" - was the view, common in his time and place, that extinction...

...order: 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. . . . From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike....

...quella Vast chain of Being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect! what no eye can see, No glass can reach! from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing! (I, 237-41)". Il mito della «grande catena dell'essere» è il principale leitmotiv del poema di Pope,...