 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
 | Stephen Baxter - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 264 pages
...Hutton had read Pope, who wrote in 1755: 'Vast chain of being) which from God began, / Nature 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.' Hutton's medical arguments were a remarkable foreshadowing... | |
 | Theodore Ziolkowski - Germany - 2004 - 252 pages
...Around, how wide! how deep extend 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 reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. (2-35-4I) The notion was widely current in Germany too,... | |
 | H. H. Shugart - Nature - 2004 - 239 pages
...this point of view: 14 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... | |
 | John Archer - Architecture - 2005 - 512 pages
...may go? Around how wide? how deep extend below? 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! — On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might... | |
 | Diane Lüscher-Morata - Art - 2005 - 316 pages
...ordre cosmique (cf. Smith, p. 146) : '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!' (Pope, w.237-44, p.513). Le Dieu de l'univers embrasse... | |
 | Johann Georg Sulzer - Art - 2005 - 152 pages
...more perfect than the last. This is the 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! POPE I imagine millions of these higher spirits as forming... | |
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