 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
 | Charles Taylor - Philosophy - 1992 - 628 pages
...this vision of order. In continuity with a long tradition, he sees it as a "great chain of being": Vast chain of Being! which from God began, Natures...reach; from Infinite to thee, from thee to Nothing. Or again: All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul71 This... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...lives along the line: (Fr. Epistle I) 72 Vast chain of Being, which from God began. Natures aethereal, arn and stack and tree. Farewell to Severn shore....For I come home no more. 29 "My mother thinks us l — (Fr. Epistle I) 73 From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks... | |
 | Douglas K. Candland - History - 1993 - 432 pages
...contemporary legal and religious system). Thereby to us, knowingly or not, as Alexander Pope writes: Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures...reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. — From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth of thousandths, breaks the chain alike.5 Two... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - Nature - 1993 - 676 pages
...Alexander Pope wrote in his Essay on Man4: Vast Chain of Being! which from God began. Natures aetherial, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what...Infinite to thee. From thee to nothing. - On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours: Or in the full creation leave a void. Where, one step... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Dikka Berven - 1995 - 456 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...which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, inan, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From... | |
 | Corinna Ruth - Study Aids - 2013 - 148 pages
...possible destruction of the natural order. Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,... Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed... Shakespeare sets the scene for this disorder... | |
 | Andrea K. Henderson - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 230 pages
...structure of the Great Chain of Being: Vast chain of Being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect! what...Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. - On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours: Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step... | |
 | Preben Mortensen - Art - 1997 - 230 pages
...272, 277). In Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man (1733-34) w e have a clear expression of this order: Vast chain of Being! which from God began, Natures...reach; from infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. . . . From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... | |
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