 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...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 in the...destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, 243 Tenth, of ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll Alike essential... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 138 pages
...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; Or in the...Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | 1860 - 566 pages
...could be permitted to perish without endangering the whole fabric of organisation. So Pope sang : — ' From Nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.' Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...can sse , No glass can reach ; from Infinite to thee , From theo to nothing. — On superior pow'rs Were We to press inferior might on ours; Or in the...Tenth or ten thousandth , breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll A like essential to th' amazing "Whole , The least confusion... | |
 | Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805 - 320 pages
...angel, Man! Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to thee ! From Nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...God, than we are from the lowest state of being, and that which approaches nearest to nothing."* l6. From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. f This doctrine is precisely the same with that of the philosophical emperor. J 17. Just as absurd... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...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 thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...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 ; Or in the...Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten-thousaudth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the'... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 pages
...I. v. 237, beginning " Vast chain of Being ! which from God began; and proceeds to " From natures's chain whatever link you strike Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." Pope seems to have caught the idea and image from Waller, whose last verse is as fine as any in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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 reach...Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
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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... 
