 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...  Essai sur l'homme - Seite 16von Alexander Pope - 1850 - 82 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Jacob Pandian, Susan Parman - 2004 - 358 Seiten
...gave all living things a fixed place — in the words of Alexander Pope in his poem "Essay on Man," "Vast chain of being! Which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel man..."). He was excessively sexual, lurking in the woods where he waited to seize, carry off, and defile civilized... | |
 | H. H. Shugart - 2004 - 239 Seiten
...of the topic of extinction, quotes Pope's Essay on Man as a prime example of 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,... | |
 | John Archer - 2005 - 512 Seiten
...dissatisfied with the position of his or her link and attempt to move up or down the Chain: See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All Matter quick,...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... | |
 | Heidi M. Rose - 2006 - 293 Seiten
...identified, Valli reasons, then it may serve as a defining element in ASL poetic discourse. See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. "An Essay on Man" But what could possibly be the signed counterpart to "earth" and "birth"? Or the... | |
 | Mark Sagoff - 2007
...rivet-popping analogy of Paul Ehrlich reflects this well-known passage in Alexander Pope's Essay on Man: Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures...man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see . . . Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd; From Nature's chain whatever link you strike,... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 2007
...the Springs and Rivers drench the Land, Our Globe would grow a Wilderness of Sand, See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth, than to note merely that both were "heroic."1 They would have felt, for example, the dogged regularity... | |
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