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... Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and ... - Sivu 371817Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| William Scott - 1829 - 420 sivua
...thee. From thee to nothing. On superiour powers Were we to press, inferiour might oit ours -t Or in tbe full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd; From Nature's dinm whatever link you strike, Tenth or tea thousandth, breaks the chain alike. What if the foot, ordain'd... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 sivua
...; From nature's chain whatever link yon strike, Tenth or ten thousandth breaks tha chain alike, ft. And, if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The feast confusion but in «ne, not all That system only, but the whole must fall. Let enrlh, unbalanc'd... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 sivua
...thee ; 240 From thee to nothing. — On superior powers Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or d by this specimen, which seems to he the production...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 sivua
...thee ; 240 From thee to nothing — On superior powVl Were we to press, inferior might on ours : Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step...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 - 1832 - 168 sivua
...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 step broken, the great scale's destroy !d} From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain... | |
| 1833 - 444 sivua
...together, that you cannot injure the one class without eventually injuring the other. Society is like a chain, — - " Whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." The mere dictates of a wise self-love would teach us to regulate ourselves ; and that foresight, which... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 394 sivua
...on Man," Epist. iv '237, beginning, " Vast chain of being! which from God began," and proceeds to " From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." Pope seems to have caught the idea and image from Waller, whose last verse is as fine as any in the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 sivua
...to thee, 240 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 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... | |
| Isaac Disraeli, Jsaac D'Jsraeli - 1835 - 524 sivua
...et la parole.* 151 • Van chain of Being ! which from God began,* and proceeds to 1 From nature'! chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.1 Pope seems to have caught the idea and image from Waller, whose last verse is as fine as any... | |
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