 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, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ... - Page 203by Alexander Pope - 1808 - 651 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1816 - 316 pages
...of loco-motion. See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive, life may go !...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,... | |
 | 1817 - 314 pages
...powers in one ? See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go! Around,...glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing—On superior powers Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Of in the full creation leave... | |
 | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - 1817 - 452 pages
...Creator, through arch-angels and angels, men, animals, vegetables and inanimate matter,down to nothing. " Vast chain of being which from God began. Natures...reach, from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing."* Yet this gradation deserves not the epithet regular or insensible. " The highest being not infinite... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...Nature. — POPK. SEE, through this air, this ocean and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go, Around...below ! Vast chain of being, which from God began : Nature's etherial, human ; angel, man< Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can fee, No glass can... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 pages
...loco-motion. See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, . All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive, life may go !...deep, extend below! Vast chain of being! which from Gon began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 pages
...Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain «f being! which from God began, Nature's mthereal, human. angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what...can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; (0*In a solemn manner. (2) The whole of the last verse to be read in a very scriom, solemn manner.... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 pages
...matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! now deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, VOL. II. L Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach . from Infinite to tbee,... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...ofJSj'nre. — I'OPE. SEE, through this air, this ocean and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go, Around,..."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 ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 pages
...powers in one? SPP, through this air, this ocean, and this eart All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go! Around,...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... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...Order of Nature. SEE, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go !...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... | |
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