 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 sider
...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 gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | 1860 - 566 sider
...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 sider
...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 gradation roll A like essential to th' amazing "Whole , The least confusion... | |
 | Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805 - 320 sider
...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 - 440 sider
...the lowest state of being, and that which approaches nearest to nothing."* 16. 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 sider
...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 sider
...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 sider
...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 gradation roll, Alike essential to the' amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | Young lady - 1809 - 204 sider
...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. It is not only from the motion in the fibres of the brain that this pleasure springs, but it principally... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 sider
...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 gradation rol| Alike essential to th" amazing whole, The least confusion but... | |
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... man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. — On superior... 
