 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...the full creation leave 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 alike. And, if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | English literature - 1860 - 566 pages
...to perish without endangering the whole fabric of organisation. So Pope sang : — ' From Nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.' Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...the full creation leave 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 alike. And, if each system in gradation roll A like essential to th' amazing "Whole , The least confusion... | |
 | Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805 - 320 pages
...bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to thee ! From Nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...are from the lowest state of being, and that which approaches nearest to nothing."* 16. From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. f This doctrine is precisely the same with that of the philosophical emperor. J 17. Just as absurd... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed -. From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...are from the lowest state of being, and that which approaches nearest to nothing."* 16. From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.f This doctrine is precisely the same with that of • the philosophical emperor. $ 17. Just... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...the full creation leave 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 alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From nature's cham whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...the full creation leave 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 And, if each system in grrtdation roil Alike essential to th' amazing Whole, The least confusion but... | |
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... angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior... 
