 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 str.
...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... | |
 | 1860 - 566 str.
...could be permitted to perish without endangering the whole fabric of organisation. So Pope sang : — ' From Nature's chain, whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.' Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 str.
...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 - 320 str.
...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... | |
 | 1806 - 408 str.
...ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed -. 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 - 464 str.
...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 str.
...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 - 328 str.
...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 str.
...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 And, if each system in grrtdation roil Alike essential to th' amazing Whole, The least confusion but... | |
 | Young lady - 1809 - 204 str.
...our's ; 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. It is not only from the motion in the fibres of the brain that this pleasure springs, but it... | |
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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... 
