 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,...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ... - Page 32by Alexander Pope - 1804 - 754 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Bowman Piper - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...vast chain of being, all of which God supports as one general entity, is composed, Pope asserts, of "angel, man, / Beast, bird, fish, insect! What no eye can see, / No glass can reach," thus acknowledging the subcategories of being in appropriate order. Throughout the poem, he gives a... | |
 | Nicole Casanova - 476 pages
...Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of Beeing, which from God began. Nature a?thereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect ! what...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... | |
 | Herman Henry Shugart - Science - 1998 - 550 pages
...Essay on Man, 1733—4), Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel and man. Beast, bird, fish, insect what no 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 full... | |
 | Rosemarie Rizzo Parse - Medical - 1999 - 326 pages
...this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. . . . Vast chains of Being! which from God began, Natures ethereal,...can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, from thee to Nothing, (pp. 100-105) Downey (1998) quoted Emily Dickinson — "hope is the thing with... | |
 | Ellis Sandoz - Political Science - 1999 - 253 pages
...reading for eighteenth-century Americans: Vast Chain of being! which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what...can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.1 The founding was not "Utopian" in expectation nor in its assessment of the world.... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - History - 2000 - 600 pages
...1712-15), VII, 248, 250 (no. 519, 25 October 1712). 166 Stecle, in The Speetator no. 428 (1 1 July 1712). Vast Chain of Being? which from God began, Natures...can see, No Glass can reach! from Infinite to Thee, From Thee to Nothing! Creation was therefore interconnected and interdependent: And if each System... | |
 | Rod Preece - Nature - 2002 - 436 pages
...John Locke he subscribed to the Great Chain doctrine but drew even more emphatic conclusions from it. Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures...can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing ... Connects each being, greatest with the least; Made beast in aid of man, and... | |
 | Thomas O. Buford, Harold H. Oliver - Collection of essays - 2002 - 454 pages
...classes than in the most sublime."" And he quoted Pope 1in Brockes' translation1: Vast chain of bemgl which from God began. Natures ethereaL human. angeL man. Beast. bird. fish. insect. what no eve can see. No glass can reach: from infinite to thee. From thee to nothing. ln the marginalia Kant... | |
 | Dan Burton, David Grandy - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2004 - 414 pages
...poet Alexander Pope, in his Essay on Man, wrote: Vast chain of Being, which from God began. Nature ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect!...can see, No glass can reach! from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing!1" Or, in schematic fashion: God Spirit Beings World Humans Beasts Zoophytes (half... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - Science - 2003 - 485 pages
...logic of the system in his Essay on Man: Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what...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 full... | |
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