...Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures cthcrenl, CP * theo to Nothing. — On superior powers Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation...

...following passage from Pope's Essay on Man l:237ff., "Vast chain of being! which from God began, / Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, / Beast, bird, fish,...reach; from infinite to thee, / From thee to nothing." 130. "humans for trees": Allusion to St. Mark 8:22-24. 131. "Voltaire . . . spirit of events": As early...

...before. 6 Evolution and natural selection Vast chain of being! which from God began, Nature's aetherial, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach . . . From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. Alexander...

...tradition, he sees it as a "great chain of being": Vast chain of Being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man. Beast, bird, fish, insect,...reach; from Infinite to thee, from thee to Nothing. Or again: All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul71 This...

...go! / Around, how wide! how deep extend below! / Vast chain of Being! which from God began, / Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, / beast, bird, fish,...glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, / From thee to Nothing.—On superior powers / Were we to press, inferior might on ours: / Or in the full creation...

...conflitto. Se ancora Pope poteva dire: «Vast chain of being! which from God began Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike»12,...

...lives along the line: (Fr. Epistle I) 72 Vast chain of Being, which from God began. Natures aethereal, arn and stack and tree. Farewell to Severn shore....For I come home no more. 29 "My mother thinks us l — (Fr. Epistle I) 73 From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks...

...Alexander Pope wrote in his Essay on Man4: Vast Chain of Being! which from God began. Natures aetherial, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what...Infinite to thee. From thee to nothing. - On superior pow'rs Were we to press, inferior might on ours: Or in the full creation leave a void. Where, one step...

...us, knowingly or not, as Alexander Pope writes: Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect,...reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. — From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth of thousandths, breaks the chain alike.5 Two...

...centered by the metaphor of the chain. 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! . . . Where, one step broken the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,...