 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...  Moral essays - Page 27by Alexander Pope - 1751Full view - About this book
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1838 - 444 pages
...feiner Süiortc fd)lie|Tcn (aßt. i. S3r. S- 235. — — — On fuperlor pow'rs Were we to prcfs, inferior might on ours: Or in the full creation leave a Void. Sie @форГчшд nebin lie ift ibin nur beg wegen voll, weil alle @rabc barinn befegt finb. Unb... | |
 | Edward Newman - Entomology - 1841 - 316 pages
...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 leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale 's destroyed; From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Geology - 1842 - 358 pages
...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 leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike. Tenth, or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...reach ; from infinite to thee ; 240 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 broken, the great scale 's destroyed : From nature's chain, whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth,... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - 510 pages
...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 leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd ; From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed : From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...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 full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...reach — from infinite to thee — From thee to nothing — On superior powers W^ere we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed : From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...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 leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd ; From nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth or... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...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 leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale 's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or... | |
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