 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where one step broken the great scale's destroy 'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - French language - 1823 - 732 pages
...according to Nature's own Method, being once discovered, ought never to undergo the least change: " From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." •> To those who have seen the preceding editions of this work, the additions in the present will... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go! +/ And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...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...Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike* 2. What if the foot, ordain'd the dust to tread, Or hand to toil, aspir'd to be the head ? What if... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...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...destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...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...destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...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...destroy'd; From nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential... | |
 | Peter Buchan - 1824 - 156 pages
...to nothing — On superior pow'rs .. > Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; ' Or in the vast creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the...Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. When we observe such a wonderful gradation of beauty, form, perfection and proportion, in the several... | |
 | Peter Buchan - 1824 - 164 pages
...pow'rs' • ; 'Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the vast creation leave a void, \Vhere, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From...Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain 'alike. ' »" • . '. ii . • 1 " 1 When we observe such a wonderful gradation of beauty, form, perfection... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1824 - 536 pages
...Man," Epist. I. v. 237, beginning, " Vast chain of Being! which from God began," and proceeds to " From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." Pope seems to have caught the idea and image from Waller, whose last verse is as fine as any in the... | |
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Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in... 
