 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, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Strona 193autor: Alexander Pope - 1890 - Liczba stron: 550Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - Liczba stron: 94
...gee, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; 240 From thee to nothing. — On superior powers Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the...creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale 's destroyed : From nature's chain, whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks... | |
 | 1844 - Liczba stron: 368
...fardel Vüung, os da yr ydwyf yn cofiaw : — " Vast chain of being! which from God began, Nature's ethereal, human, angel, man ; Beast, bird, fish, insect,...eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thcc, From thec to nothing. * * * And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the amazing... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - Liczba stron: 490
...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,...infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. — On superior powers Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one... | |
 | Ernest A. Menze, Karl Menges - 2010 - Liczba stron: 365
...eighteenth-century thought. Cf. the following passage from Pope's Essay on Man l:237ff., "Vast chain of being! which from God began, / Natures ethereal, human, angel,...reach; from infinite to thee, / From thee to nothing." 130. "humans for trees": Allusion to St. Mark 8:22-24. 131. "Voltaire . . . spirit of events": As early... | |
 | Charles Taylor - 1992 - Liczba stron: 628
...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 ethereal, human, angel,...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... | |
 | Reinhold Grimm, Jost Hermand - 1989 - Liczba stron: 136
...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,...glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, / From thee to Nothing.—On superior powers / Were we to press, inferior might on ours: / Or in the full creation... | |
 | David Carroll - 1990 - Liczba stron: 344
...for all things, but, more importantly, sought to keep everything in its place. Vast chain of Being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel,...Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. On superior powers Were we to press, inferior might on ours: Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1990 - Liczba stron: 728
...cosa con su full creation, como se puede deducir de la ilación de sus palabras. Carta 1, línea 235 On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours: Or in the full creation leave a Void. Es decir, para él la creación está completa sólo porque todos sus grados están ocupados. Y ésta... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - Liczba stron: 1172
...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... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - 1993 - Liczba stron: 676
...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...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... | |
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