 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, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.  Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ... - Page 286by Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, !No glass can reach ;...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... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...iulinitc to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior pow'rs Wire we to press, inferior might on cms ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy 'd : From N. ¡lure's chain whatever lin» you strike, Teuth, or ten thousandth, breaks the... | |
 | Samuel Shuckford - History, Ancient - 1808 - 428 pages
...from Ood began. Nature's ethereal, human, angel man, Beast, bird, fish, insect! what no eye can sec. No glass can reach! from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.* • e Pope's Essay on Man, ep. 2. ver. £. f The stoic's pride here hinted at, is, I think, what is... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...God began; Katuret ethereal, human, angel, man, Ml Bea*t, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can sec, Mo ur candid judge, MTwn, on their exit, souls are bid unrobe, And^lrop this mask pow'il' \Vere we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, U'hcre, one... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...oan sec, 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...scale's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link yon strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...can see, No elasscan reach ; from infinite to the^ ' "isom thee to nothing. On superior pow K» . . , Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the...scale's destroy'd ; From nature's chain whatever link yovi stnke, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain aUKfAnd, if each system in gradation roll, Alike... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, wbat no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from Infinite to thee, 34ft From thee to Nothing.— rOn superior powers Were we to press, inferior might on urns; Or in the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Nature ethereal, human ; angel, man; Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no 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 j Or in the full creation leave... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye 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 VKK.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...etherial, human, angel, man; ' Beast, bird, fish, inseet, what no eye ean see, No glass ean reaeh ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...pow'rs •Were we to press, inferior might on ours 3 Or in the full ereation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great seale's destroy'd' From nature's... | |
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