 See, thro' 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...  The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 152by Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...not only the stuff or matter to the shape itself and form, to the circumstance, VIII. See, through 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 ! x/ Vast chain ofBeing ! which from God began, Natures... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain and the lynx's beam ! 8. See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick and bursting into birth. Of smell, the headlong lioness between And hound sagacious on the tainted green ! Of hearing, from... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1822 - 246 pages
...this knowledge, most people read all verse like the Iambic measure. The following are pure Iambics. " Above how high progressive life may go! Around how wide, how deep extend below !" It is so easy to lay an accent on every second syllable, that any school boy can read this measure... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1822 - 312 pages
...SECTION XX. The order of nature. SEE thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, AD matter quick, atid bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wido ! how deep extend belowJ\ Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Nature ethereal, human;... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...sight Produc'd the beast — and lo ! — 'twas white. II. — On the Order of Nature. SEE, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, , All matter...below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began : Nature's ethereal, human ; angel, man ; Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass... | |
 | Peter Buchan - 1824 - 164 pages
...or all to thee? The pow'rs of all subdu'd by thee alone, Is not thy reason all these pow'rs in one ? See thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth. All...below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began, ' j Nature ethereal, human, angel, man, jBeast, bird', fish, insect ! what no eye can see, No glass... | |
 | Peter Buchan - 1824 - 156 pages
...or all to thee? The pow'rs of all subdu'd by thee alone, Is not thy reason all these pow'rs in one ? See thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All...into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! 30 ' . • • Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 80 pages
...powers of all subdu'd by thee alone, Is not thy reason all these powers in one ? VIII. See through 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 ! 2* Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Nature's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...The powers of all subdu'd by thee alone, Is not thy reason all these powers in one? VIII. See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick,...into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! 235 Ai ound, how wide ! how deep extend below ! 2* Vast chain of being; ! which from God began, Nature's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...pow'rs of all subdued by thee alone, Is not thy Reason all these pow'rs in one ? VIII. See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. COMMENTARY. Ver. 233. See, through this air, (5fc.] And further (from ver. 232 to 267.), that this... | |
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