 | 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... | |
 | Royal Society of Canada - Humanities - 1883 - 792 pages
...stage in its chemical development. He will then, in the words of a philosophic poet, " See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick and bursting into birth." The adjective, quick, is here to be understood in its primitive sense of living, as opposed to dead,... | |
 | Reinhold Grimm, Jost Hermand - Art - 1989 - 136 pages
...commentateurs anglais de Newton (Paris, 1938). 47 Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, 8: 233-46: "See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, / All matter...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... | |
 | Dikka Berven - 1995 - 456 pages
...from. Pope will surely be among them. In the Essay on Man we may read the following lines: See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick,...below! Vast chain of Being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, inan, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can... | |
 | Nicole Casanova - 476 pages
...step broken, the grat scale's destroy'd (« Qu'un anneau se détache, et la chaîne se brise »). - See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All...Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of Beeing, which from God began. Nature a?thereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect ! what... | |
 | Rosemarie Rizzo Parse - Medical - 1999 - 326 pages
...century, an example of which is Pope's (1733) poem: Hope springs eternal in the human breast. . . . See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. . . . Vast chains of Being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man. Beast, bird,... | |
 | Roy Porter - History - 2000 - 776 pages
...herbs and herbivores, up through the Chain of Being to the Psalmist's, or Addison's, great Original: See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth. All...life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! 15 Perceptions of the terrestrial economy as a drama or, equally, as an estate, matched the daily material... | |
 | Roy Porter - History - 2000 - 772 pages
...herbs and herbivores, up through the Chain of Being to the Psalmist's, or Addison's, great Original: See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All...progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below!13 Perceptions of the terrestrial economy as a drama or, equally, as an estate, matched the daily... | |
 | Theodore Ziolkowski - Germany - 2004 - 252 pages
...perhaps its most familiar expression in the lines of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (I733-34)Above, how high, progressive life may go! Around, how wide!...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... | |
 | John Archer - Architecture - 2005 - 512 pages
...become dissatisfied with the position of his or her link and attempt to move up or down the Chain: See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All...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:... | |
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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... 
