 | Alexander Pope - 1798
...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 gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804
...ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's deslroy'd : From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804
...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 gradation roll A like essential to th' amazing "Whole , The least confusion... | |
 | Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805
...angel, Man! Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to thee ! From Nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806
...God, than we are from the lowest state of being, and that which approaches nearest to nothing."* l6. From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. f This doctrine is precisely the same with that of the philosophical emperor. J 17. Just as... | |
 | 1806 - 380 pages
...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 gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion... | |
 | Joseph Nightingale - 1807 - 496 pages
...the dying martyrs. The general order, since the whole began, It kept in Nature, and is kept in Man. From Nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. Be these conjectures right or wrong, Mr. Wesley appears to have conducted himself throughout... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807
...I. v. 237, beginning " Vast chain of Being ! which from God began; and proceeds to " From natures's chain whatever link you strike Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." Pope seems to have caught the idea and image from Waller, whose last verse is as fine as any... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808
...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 gradation roll, Alike essential to the' amazing whole, The least confusion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810
...on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step btoken, the great scale's desrroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation rolj Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion... | |
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... 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... 
