 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 ... - الصفحة 371817عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | William Enfield - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...to thee, From thee to Nothing. — On superior pow'rs 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... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...infinite to thee, From thee to nothing ! on superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step...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... | |
 | Peter Buchan - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 156
...to nothing — On superior pow'rs .. > Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; ' Or in the vast creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the...Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. When we observe such a wonderful gradation of beauty, form, perfection and proportion, in the several... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 84
...thee ; 240 From thee to nothing — On superior pow'rs 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...to thee, 240 From thee to nothing ! On superior pow'rs 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...to thee, 240 From thee to nothing ! On superior pow'rs 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... | |
 | Peter Buchan - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 164
...pow'rs' • ; 'Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the vast creation leave a void, \Vhere, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From...Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain 'alike. ' »" • . '. ii . • 1 " 1 When we observe such a wonderful gradation of beauty, form, perfection... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...Man," Epist. I. v. 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 - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 80
...thee ; 24 From thce to nothing — On superior pow"rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours : Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the g eat scale's destroy'd : From nature's chain whatever link you strike, 24s Tenth, or ten thousandth,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...thee, 240 From thee to nothing. — On superior powere Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step...if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.... | |
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