 See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel,...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 70by Joseph Warton - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Reinhold Grimm, Jost Hermand - Art - 1989 - 136 pages
..."See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, / All matter quick, and bursting into birth. / Above, how high, progressive life may go! / Around,...below! / Vast chain of Being! which from God began, / Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, / beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, / No glass... | |
 | Authors, French - 1963 - 498 pages
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 | Paola Colaiacomo - Philosophy - 1989 - 404 pages
...conflitto. Se ancora Pope poteva dire: «Vast chain of being! which from God began Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike»12,... | |
 | G. A. Rosso - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 220 pages
...centered by the metaphor of the chain. Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures 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: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,... | |
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