 | Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey - Philosophy, French - 1759 - 308 pages
...innumerable Clafles of thefe fuperior Natures, all in an infenfible Gradation afcending towards Perfection: See, through this Air, this Ocean, and this Earth, All Matter quick, and burfting into Birth. F 4, Above, Above, how high progreffive Life may goi Around how wide, how deep... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...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 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, Nature's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...oralltothee? 230 The powers of all A:bdued by thee alone, Is not thy Reafon all thefe powers in one ? VlII. See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and burfting into birth. Above, how high, progreffive life may go ! 235 Around, how wide ! how deep extend... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...the lion, was occasioned by observation of this defect of scent in that terrible animal. — Pope, Above, how high, progressive life may go ! Around,...wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being t which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...thce? 2ja The powers of all Lbdaed by thee alone, Is not thy Reafon all thefe powers in one ? VIII. See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and burfting into birth. Above, how high, progreffive life may go! 235 Around, how wide ! how deep extend... | |
 | James Thomson - 1793 - 300 pages
...calamities. V. 285. — " Full nature swarms with life." • • We have the same thought amplified by POPE : See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth 1 Pope's Essay on Man ; Ep. i. <o. 233* V. 519. " These are the haunts of meditation 1" — Here in... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...thee ? 230 The powers of all fubdued by thce alone, Is not thy reafon all thefe powers in one ? VIII. See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and burfting into birth. Above, how high, progreffive life may go ! (Around, how wide '. bow deep extend... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...alone, Is not thy reason all these pow'rs in one? 8. See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, X All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above,...below ! 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... | |
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See through 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... 
