 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
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1829 - 216 pages
...infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior pow'ra Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Oi in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step...strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. 2. And, if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1830 - 244 pages
...from infinite'to thee, R 2 From thee to nothing. — On superiour pow'rs Were we to press, inferiour might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void,...strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. 2. And, if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th* amazing whole, The least confusion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...see, No (lass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; 240 From thee to nothing. — On superior powers o polite letters. If the whole may be estimated by...a few touches perhaps by Pope, the want of more wi yon strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pages
...can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; 240 From thee to nothing — On superior powVl 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... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...eye can see, No 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, 240 From thee to nothing. On superior powers Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the...Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : 553 'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier ! So nice, that it is undiscoverable. The elephant... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...see, Jio glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; 240 From thee to nothing. — On superior powers friends, oh ever partners of my woes, 190 Attend while I what heaven foredooms disclose. H htep hroken, the great scale's destroy'd : From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1837 - 276 pages
...might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth...each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all ^ That system only, but the whole must fall.... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1838 - 444 pages
...befW;f, nad> fid; ;te< ben follte. 1. S3r. 3. 233 — 236. -- On fuperior pow'rs Were we to prefs, inferior might on ours: Or in the full creation leave a Void, Where, one step broken, the great scales destroyed. unb Seile 239 — 242. And if each Syftem in gradation roll Alike effential to th... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1839 - 276 pages
...can se«, 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...destroy'd From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Ten or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike And, if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential... | |
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