 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
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, bow con see, No glass can reach ; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. — On superior powers Were... | |
 | Robert E. Butts - 1986 - 386 pages
...among intelligent creatures".1* Kant's authority, however, is Pope: Vast chain of Being! which froi God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast,...can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, Froi thee to Nothing. 23/ Ak I, pp. 174-175. The Appendix or Third Part of NTH entitled "On the Inhabitants... | |
 | Ernest A. Menze, Karl Menges - 2010 - 365 pages
...much alive in eighteenth-century thought. Cf. the following passage from Pope's Essay on Man l:237ff., "Vast chain of being! which from God began, / Natures...reach; from infinite to thee, / From thee to nothing." 130. "humans for trees": Allusion to St. Mark 8:22-24. 131. "Voltaire . . . spirit of events": As early... | |
 | Samuel Anthony Barnett - 1988 - 410 pages
...before. 6 Evolution and natural selection Vast chain of being! which from God began, Nature's aetherial, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach . . . From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. Alexander... | |
 | Reinhold Grimm, Jost Hermand - 1989 - 136 pages
...8: 233-46: "See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, / All matter quick, and bursting into birth. / Above, how high, progressive life may go!...glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, / From thee to Nothing.—On superior powers / Were we to press, inferior might on ours: / Or in the full creation... | |
 | Charles Taylor - 1992 - 628 pages
...this vision of order. In continuity with a long tradition, he sees it as a "great chain of being": Vast chain of Being! which from God began, Natures...reach; from Infinite to thee, from thee to Nothing. Or again: All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul71 This... | |
 | 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....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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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 step... | |
 | 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,... | |
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