 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,...  Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York - Page 107by Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815Full view - About this book
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...matter qnick, and bursting into birth. Above , how high , progressive life may go ! Around how wid%! how deep extend below!. Vast chain of Being ! which from God began , Natures aethereal , human ; angel , man ! Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can sse , No glass can reach... | |
 | Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805 - 320 pages
...simil»rity, if not imitation, may be discovered : Vast chain of being, which from God began, Kature's ethereal, human, angel, Man! Beast, bird, fish, insect,...see, No glass can reach, from infinite to thee ! From Nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...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,...reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing, f " That there should be more species of intelligent creatures above us, than there are of sensible... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Nature's aethereal, human angel, man ; Beast, bird, fish, insect) what...reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing, f " That there should be more species of intelligent creatures above us, than there are of sen'sible... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...this earth, d 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, RthereaJ, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can sec, No glass can reach ; from... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...a fyftem ? WARBURTON. NOTES. VEK. 235. AbofJt, booo high,] This is a magnificent paffage. Has Vaft chain of Being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beaft, bird, fifh, infect, what no eye can fee, ^ No glafs can reach ; from infinite to thee, 240 From... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...fuch a fyfttm ? WARBURTON. NOTES. VER. 235. Aboix, how high,] This is a magnificent paffage. Has Vaft chain of Being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beaft, bird, fifh, infect, what no eye can fee, No glafs can reach ; from infinite to thee, 240 From... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...and this earth, AH matter quick, and bursting into hirth! 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, hird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...helow ! Vast ch:;in of heing! which from God hegan Natures ethereal, human, angel, .man, Beast, hird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; 240 From thee to nothing. — On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...I how deep, extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which (i om God began ; Natures ethereal, hitman, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye...nothing — On superior powers. Were we to press, interior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's... | |
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