 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 Bullock - Natural history - 1813 - 250 pages
...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, Nature's ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...this earth, All matter quidt, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! 235 Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain...fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach 1 from infinite to thee, 240 From thee to nothing.—On superior pow'rs Or in the full creation leave... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...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 etherial, human ; angel, man ; Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ;... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go ! j Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain...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 full... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...how deep extent! below! Vast chain of beiug ! which from God began, Nature, ethereal, human, angtl, man : Beast, bird, fish, insect, what 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 full... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Ecology - 1815 - 160 pages
...helow ! Vast chain of heing ! which from God hegan. Nature's ethereal, human, angel, man. Beast, hird, fish, insect, what 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 full... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1816 - 316 pages
...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...can see, No glass can reach ; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. POPE. Obs.~-The principal object of the study of natural history, is to teach... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...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...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; Of in the full... | |
 | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - Electrophysiology - 1817 - 452 pages
...Creator, through arch-angels and angels, men, animals, vegetables and inanimate matter,down to nothing. " Vast chain of being which from God began. Natures...can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing."* Yet this gradation deserves not the epithet regular or insensible. " The highest... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain «f being! which from God began, Nature's mthereal, human. angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what...can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; (0*In a solemn manner. (2) The whole of the last verse to be read in a very scriom, solemn manner.... | |
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