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
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...Yet at a ball unthinking fools delight In the gay trappings of a birthday night. Sirift. Sec through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick and bursting into birth. Pope. Much I misdoubt this wayward boy • Will one day work me more annoy ; I never loved him from... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...not thy reason all these powers in one ? VIII. See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, vli en drives them away. Ho cures diseases that were never...roasoa this jr>i:it production of throe great write ! Vut chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Bast, bird, fish,... | |
| Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 412 pages
...powers of all subdued 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, and bursting into birth. From th.ee to nothing. — On superior powers Were we to pass, inferior might on ours; Or in the full... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1926 - 310 pages
...thee? ay> 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...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, Natures ethereal,... | |
| George Carver - American literature - 1926 - 504 pages
...powers of all subdued 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 ! Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures... | |
| Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...thee ? 230 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...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, Natures aethereal,... | |
| 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,...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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
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