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, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Seite 193von Alexander Pope - 1890 - 550 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 616 Seiten
...how high, progressive life may go ! j Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel,...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 Seiten
...how deep extent! below! Vast chain of beiug ! which from God began, Nature, ethereal, human, angtl, man : Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,...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... | |
| DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 160 Seiten
...helow ! Vast chain of heing ! which from God hegan. Nature's ethereal, human, angel, man. Beast, hird, 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 Seiten
...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,...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 Seiten
...arch-angels and angels, men, animals, vegetables and inanimate matter,down to nothing. " Vast chain of being which from God began. Natures ethereal, human, angel,...reach, from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing."* Yet this gradation deserves not the epithet regular or insensible. " The highest being not infinite... | |
| 1817 - 314 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 Seiten
...progressive, life may go ! Around, how wide! how deep, extend below! Vast chain of being! which from Gon began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast,...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,... | |
| Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 Seiten
...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.... | |
| William Scott - 1819 - 366 Seiten
...! Around, how wide ! How deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began : Nature's ethereal, human ; angel, man ; Beast, bird, fish,...inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a voidj "Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From nature's chain whatever link you... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 Seiten
...may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of being! which from God began, Nature's ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect!...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... | |
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