...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, Natures aethereal,...

...religious, and transmits with poetic, fervour See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, 233 All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above,...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...

...at a certain stage in its chemical development. He will then, in the words of a philosophic poet, " See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick and bursting into birth." The adjective, quick, is here to be understood in its primitive sense of living, as opposed to dead,...

...to choose from. Pope will surely be among them. In the Essay on Man we may read the following lines: See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth,...which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, inan, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From...

...broken, the grat scale's destroy'd (« Qu'un anneau se détache, et la chaîne se brise »). - See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick,...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...

...example of which is Pope's (1733) poem: Hope springs eternal in the human breast. . . . See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. . . . Vast chains of Being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man. Beast, bird,...

...herbivores, up through the Chain of Being to the Psalmist's, or Addison's, great Original: See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth. All matter quick,...life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! 15 Perceptions of the terrestrial economy as a drama or, equally, as an estate, matched the daily material...

...herbivores, up through the Chain of Being to the Psalmist's, or Addison's, great Original: See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick,...progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below!13 Perceptions of the terrestrial economy as a drama or, equally, as an estate, matched the daily...

...classes than in the most sublime."" And he quoted Pope 1in Brockes' translation1: Vast chain of bemgl which from God began. Natures ethereaL human. angeL man. Beast. bird. fish. insect. what no eve can see. No glass can reach: from infinite to thee. From thee to nothing. ln the marginalia Kant...

...perhaps its most familiar expression in the lines of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man (I733-34)Above, how high, progressive life may go! Around, how wide!...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...