 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...  Poems, Moral, Elegant and Pathetic: Vis. Essay on Man - Side 141796 - 220 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 sider
...238. Ed. 1ft. Ethereal cfllnce, fpirit, fubftance, man. D 3 From thee to Nothing. -On fuperior powers Were we to prefs, inferior might on ours ; Or in the...a void, Where, one ftep broken, the great fcale 's deftfoy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you ftrike, 245 Tenth, or ten thoufandth, breaks the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 sider
...chain of being ! which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beaft, bird, fifh, infeft, what no eye can fee, No glafs can reach ; from Infinite...Creation leave a void, Where, one ftep broken, the great fcale's deftroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you ftrike, Tenth, or ten thoufandth, breaks... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 sider
...chain of Being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human ; angel, man; Beaft, bird, fifh, infeft, what no eye can fee, No glafs can reach ; from Infinite...creation leave a void, Where, one ftep broken, the great fcale's deftroyed 5 From Nature's chain whatever link you ftrike, Tenth or ten thoufandth, breaks the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 sider
...man, Beaft, bird, fifh, infect, what no eye can fee, No glafs can reach ; from Infinite to thee, 240 From thee to Nothing. — On fuperior pow'rs Were we to prefs, inferior might on ours ; out in the night-time they fet up a loud roar, and then liften to the *>fc made by the beads in their... | |
 | William Belsham - 1789 - 482 sider
...began, Natures vethercal, human, angel, man, Beaft, bird, fifli, infect, what no eye can fee, No glais can reach ; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing....creation leave a void, Where, one ftep broken, the great fcale's deftroved. * Vide Hume's Effays, Vol. I. p. 151. . On On reading the entire pafiage from whence... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 sider
...from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. — On fuperiour pow'rs « Were we to prefs, inferiour might on ours"; " Or in the full creation leave a void, • Where, one ftep broken, the great fcale's deftroy'd iFrbm Nature's chain whatever link you ftrike, Tscth or ten thoufandth, breaks the... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 sider
...i£. Echereal cilencc, fyirit, fubftance» nun. D From From thee to Nothing — On fuperior powers Were we to prefs, inferior might on ours; Or in the...a void, Where, one ftep broken, the great fcale 's deftroy'J: From Nature's chain whatever link you flrike, Tenth, or ten thoufandth, breaks the chain... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 sider
...what no eye can fee. No glafs can reach ; from Infinite to thee, From thcc to Nothing. — On fupcrior pow'rs Were we to prefs, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full Creation leave a void, Where, one ftcp broken, the great fcalc's deftroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you ftrike, Tenth, orten-thoufandth,... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1792 - 342 sider
...feiner full creation, mie jïdj айв bec aSecbinbung feinec SBorte fc^liegcn lagt. I »C. 3. ïjf. On fuperior pow'rs , Were we to prefs, inferior might on ours : Or. in the full creation leave a Void. • • Sie @(f)6pfung nemlicf) i ft tism nuc bec-iuc* gen voll/ meil äße ©cabe barin befe^t fínb.... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1792 - 352 sider
...»erfleht p<st pe unter feiner fidl creation, wie рф auí bet feinet SBorte fd;íicj5cii * ' — Ön fuperior pow'rs Were we to prefs, inferior might on ours : Or in the full creation leave a Void. ¡Die ©empfang Hcmltd) Ifl ¡i)m nut beéwe/ gen »oll, roetl ade ©rabe barin befegt ftnb. Unb btefe*... | |
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