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, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ... - Page 203by Alexander Pope - 1808 - 651 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...VIII. See, through this air, this ocean, and this All matter quick, and bursting into birth. [earth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around,...can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, 240 From thee to nothing. — On superior powere Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below j Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Nature ethereal, human ; angel, man ; Beast, bird, fish,...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... | |
| William Grisenthwaite - Church history - 1825 - 314 pages
...fictions it more properly belongs. " Vast chain of Being ! which from God began " Natures aethereal, human, angel, man; " Beast, bird, fish, insect, what...eye can see,. " No glass can reach from infinite to thcc, " From thee to nothing." An objection fatal, to this dream of philosophy, arises out of the question,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...powers in one ? See, through this air, this oeean, and this earth, All matter quiek, and bursting into verse. SONG. Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, eool, translueent wa ehain of being, whieh from (iod began ! Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, inseet,... | |
| William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...! 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 reacli ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1826 - 322 pages
...of loco-motion. See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around,...man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, Ho glass can reach ; from INFINITE to thee, From thee to nothing. POPE. 06*. — The principal object... | |
| Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 314 pages
...go ! . Around, how wide ! how deep extend below : Vast chain of being ! which from God began. Nature ethereal, human ; angel, man ; Beast, bird, fish,...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... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...order of nature. 1 See thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting isto birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around,...below; Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Nature ethereal, human ; angel, mans Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...of nature. ]. 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 chaia o£. being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human ; angel, man ; Beast, bird, fish,... | |
| John Lauris Blake - History - 1827 - 494 pages
...OF NATURE. 1. SEE, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around,...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... | |
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