 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
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...banish Beaus, and Coaches Coaches drive. From The Rape of the Lock, i (1714) C. - On superior pow'rs 241 Were we to press, inferior might on ours: Or in the...strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall. Let Earth unbalanc'd... | |
 | William F. Bynum, Roy Porter - Medical - 2002 - 444 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...Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or tenth thousandth, breaks the chain alike. 79 Goldsmith, Animated Nature, IV, pp. 252-3; II, p. 303,... | |
 | Margit Hacker - Utopias in literature - 1989 - 196 pages
...no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee From thee to nothing - On superior powrs Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the...Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." (Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, hrsg. v. M. Mack, London 1950, S. 44f.) Wieland betont in seinem... | |
 | Reinhold Grimm, Jost Hermand - Art - 1989 - 136 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Philosophy - 1990 - 728 pages
...en todos los sistemas de que consta el universo Carta 1 , líneas 233-236 On superior pow'rs Where we to press, inferior might on ours: Or in the full...Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd. 16 Y líneas 239-242 And ifeach System in gradation roll Alike essential to th'amazing whole: The least... | |
 | David Carroll - Art - 1990 - 344 pages
...no 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 destroyed: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain... | |
 | Isaac Kramnick - Business & Economics - 1992 - 344 pages
...would heap scorn on those few money men whose failure to keep their place jeopardized the entire order. Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd:...if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to die amazing Whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but die Whole must fall.51... | |
 | Francis Bulhof - Authors, Dutch - 1993 - 260 pages
...dat de op zichzelf volmaakte schepping geheel van de sterkte van de zwakste schakel afhankelijk is: From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth...if 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.... | |
 | G. A. Rosso - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 220 pages
...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:...strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. (1:237-47) The chain runs from the cosmos to society to the mind; when any link snaps, the whole metaphysic... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - Nature - 1993 - 676 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...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... | |
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