 Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in...  Essai sur l'homme - Seite 16von Alexander Pope - 1850 - 82 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1822 - 284 Seiten
...[stroy'd: Where, one step broken, the great scale 's deFrom Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike....each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 Seiten
...Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy 'd. From nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike ; And if each system in gradation roil Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 Seiten
...Where one step broken the great scale's destroy 'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And,...unbalanc'd from her orbit fly, Planets and suns run lawless through the sky ; Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurl'd, Being on being wreck'd, and world... | |
 | John Walker - 1823 - 406 Seiten
...and illustrate it, we may be sure that word is emphatical. Let us try to make this clear by examples. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential...not all That system only, but the whole must fall. In the third line of this passage, we find an uncommon effort in the author to express " the strong... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From nature's chain whatever link you strike, through the sky ; Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurl'd, Being on being wreck'd, and world... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 Seiten
...Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike....not all That system only, but the Whole must fall. 250 NOTES. Ver. 240. No glass can reach ;] " There are," says Hooke, the naturalist, " 8,280,000 animalcula... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 Seiten
...Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike....not all That system only, but the Whole must fall. 250 NOTES. Ver. 240. No glass can reach ;] " There are," says Hooke, the naturalist, " 8,280,000 animalcula... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 308 Seiten
...From natnre'i chain, whatever link >ou strike, Tenth or. ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. fl: And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential...confusion but in one, not all, That system only, but the whols must fall. Let earth unbalanc'd from her orhit fly, Planets and suns- run lawless through the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 Seiten
...Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd; From nature's chain whatever link you strike, 245 Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike....each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the amazing whole ; The least confusion but in one, not all . That system only, but the whole must... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 Seiten
...amazing whole ; The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall. 250 Let earth unbalanc'd from her orbit fly, Planets and suns run lawless through the sky •, Let ruling angels from their spheres he hurl'd, Being on being wreck'd, and world... | |
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