 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: With His Last Corrections, Additions ... - Page 32by Alexander Pope - 1804 - 754 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 814 pages
...dexterous gloMier strong returns the bound, And gingling sashes on the penthouse sound. Gay. Nature'» ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see ; No glau can reach from infinite to thee. From thee to nothing. Pope. Th* profit of yluaet consists only... | |
 | 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....look your last at me, For I come home no more. 29 From thee to Nothing! — (Fr. Epistle I) 73 From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...can see. No 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... | |
 | G. A. Rosso - 1993 - 220 pages
...centered by the metaphor of the chain. 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! . . . Where, one step broken the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,... | |
 | Dikka Berven - 1995 - 456 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Corinna Ruth - 2013 - 148 pages
...possible destruction of the natural order. Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,... Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed... Shakespeare sets the scene for this disorder... | |
 | Andrea K. Henderson - 1996 - 230 pages
...structure of the Great Chain of Being: Vast chain of Being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect! what...can see, No 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... | |
 | Preben Mortensen - 1997 - 230 pages
...272, 277). In Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man (1733-34) w e have a clear expression of this order: Vast chain of Being! which from God began, Natures...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,... | |
 | Eugenio Spedicato - 1997 - 200 pages
...vedere la catena che tutto tiene, quella Vast chain of Being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect! what...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... | |
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