 Vast chain of Being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, 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...  The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life - Page 197by Alexander Pope - 1825 - 524 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...it may be doubted whether they are animal or vegetable. From thee to Nothing. — On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours : Or in the...Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : FrpmJSature's chain .whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or tenjhousandth, breaks the chain alike.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...thought recoiling turns ? See also Locke, vol. ii. p. 49. From thee to Nothing. — On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours : Or in the...a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy 'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...our's : Or in 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,...the chain alike ; And if each system in gradation roil Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...no eye 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...strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. What if the foot, ordain'd the dust to tread, Or hand to toil, aspir'd to be the head ? What if the... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...eye 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...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. — On superior powers res <,/ th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...eye 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...Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike* 2. What if the foot, ordain'd the dust to tread, Or hand to toil, aspir'd to be the head ? What if... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, 240 From thee to nothing ! On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours : Or in the...destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; 240 From thee to nothing — On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours Or in the...destroy'd; From nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, 240 From thee to nothing ! On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours : Or in the...destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential... | |
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