 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.... | |
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