 Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.  Human Physiology - Page 33by Robley Dunglison - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Eugenio Spedicato - Philosophy - 1997 - 200 pages
...vedere la catena che tutto tiene, quella 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 Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing! (I, 237-41)". Il mito della «grande catena dell'essere»... | |
 | William Bowman Piper - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...vast chain of being, all of which God supports as one general entity, is composed, Pope asserts, of "angel, man, / Beast, bird, fish, insect! What no eye can see, / No glass can reach," thus acknowledging the subcategories of being in appropriate order. Throughout the poem, he gives a... | |
 | Nicole Casanova - 476 pages
...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 no eye can see, No glass can reach ! from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing ! — On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might... | |
 | Herman Henry Shugart - Science - 1998 - 550 pages
...Essay on Man, 1733—4), Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel and man. Beast, bird, fish, insect what no eye can see, No glass can reach! From infinite to thee, from thee to Nothing! - On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might... | |
 | Rosemarie Rizzo Parse - Medical - 1999 - 326 pages
...All matter quick, and bursting into birth. . . . Vast chains of Being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man. Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, from thee to Nothing, (pp. 100-105) Downey (1998) quoted Emily Dickinson —... | |
 | Ellis Sandoz - Political Science - 1999 - 253 pages
...reading for eighteenth-century Americans: 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 Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.1 The founding was not "Utopian" in expectation nor in... | |
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