| Robert Blakey - Ethics - 1833 - 402 pages
...mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass. • • • • • • Above, how high progressive life may go! Around, how...below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, From thee to nothing"... | |
| Robert Blakey - Ethics - 1833 - 408 pages
...nun's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass. • • • • • • Above, bow high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide !...below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, From tbee to nothing"... | |
| Noah Webster - English language - 1833 - 202 pages
...this knowledge, most people read all verse like the Iambic measure. The following are pure Iambics. " Above how high progressive life may go ! Around how wide, how deep extend below!" It is so easy to lay an accent on every second syllable, that any school-boy can read this measure... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...Is not thy reason all these powers in one ? vui. See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth : Above, how high progressive life may go ! 235 Around how wide, how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Is not thy Reason all these pow'rs in one ? VIII. See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! 235 Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures aethereal,... | |
| Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...religious, and transmits with poetic, fervour See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, 233 All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above,...below! 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... | |
| Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 1981 - 370 pages
...less magnificant in the lowest classes then in the most sublime.20 And now Kant specifically quotes: Vast chain of being! which from God began, Nature's...glass can reach; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.21 It is Kant's contention that "creation is never finished." "It started once but will never... | |
| Robert E. Butts - Science - 1986 - 386 pages
...creatures".1* Kant's authority, however, is Pope: Vast chain of Being! which froi God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect,...can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, Froi thee to Nothing. 23/ Ak I, pp. 174-175. The Appendix or Third Part of NTH entitled "On the Inhabitants... | |
| Samuel Anthony Barnett - Psychology - 1988 - 410 pages
...before. 6 Evolution and natural selection Vast chain of being! which from God began, Nature's aetherial, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach . . . From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. Alexander... | |
| Reinhold Grimm, Jost Hermand - Art - 1989 - 136 pages
...47 Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, 8: 233-46: "See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, / All matter quick, and bursting into birth. / Above,...below! / Vast chain of Being! which from God began, / Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, / beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, / No glass... | |
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