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 237by Alexander Pope - 1851 - 484 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...The pow'rs of all subdu'd by thee alone, Is not thy reason all these pow'rs in one ? VIII. See thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick,...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, Nature's... | |
| James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...calamities. V. 285. — " Full nature swarms with life." • • We have the same thought amplified by POPE : See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth 1 Pope's Essay on Man ; Ep. i. <o. 233* V. 519. " These are the haunts of meditation 1" — Here in... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...alone, Is not thy reason all these pow'rs in one? 8. See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, X All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above,...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 reach; from... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...The pow'rs of all subdu'd by thee alone, Is not thy reason all these pow'rs in one ? VIII. See thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick,...into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go I 23S Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...alone, Is not thy Reason all these pow'rs in one ? See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, d All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above,...chain of being ! which from God began, .' Natures, RthereaJ, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can sec, No glass can reach ; from... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...229. in man ? Would we have no reserve for these ? No saving for this part of his engine ?"* ' 15. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around,...below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began. Nature's aethereal, human angel, man ; Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...laws, Of Order, tint against th' Eternal Cause, POPE. CHAP. XII ON THE ORDER OF NATURE. SEE, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick,...wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of Being -I which from God began, Nature ethereal, human ; angel, man ; Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye... | |
| 1808 - 408 pages
...thee ? The powers of all subdued by thee alone, Is i.rt thy reason all these pow'rs alone' Kec lliro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick,...progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep e\t'jnd below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began ; Natures ethereal, human, nngel, man. Beiist,... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick and bursting into hirth ! Above, bow high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide !...below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began ; Matures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, hird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can... | |
| Young lady - Psychology - 1809 - 204 pages
...why the laws of sensation, being the same in all men, there should yet be such a diversity in tastes. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around,...below. Vast chain of being ! which from God began> Nature's ethereal, human, angel, man. As soon as mankind came to a knowledge of anatomy, they perceived... | |
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