 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...  The British poets, including translations - Strana 39autor/autoři: British poets - 1822Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 str.
...can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee. From thee to Nothing! — (Fr. Epistle I) 73 From ke? When shall I sleep again? (XLVIII) Housman POETRY QUOTATIONS In Summertime on Breda 2 (Fr. Epistle I) 74 All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is. and God the soul;... | |
 | Walter Lowe - 1993 - 212 str.
...rationalist effort soon begins to undermine it. Thus one finds in Pope the astonishing affirmation: And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential...amazing Whole, The least confusion but in one, not all Nudge one peg out of place and the entire edifice collapses. This is conservatism become paranoia,... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - 1993 - 676 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. John Ray found it difficult to accept extinction despite the evidence of the fossil record, and this... | |
 | G. A. Rosso - 1993 - 220 str.
...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, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. (1:237-47) The chain runs from the cosmos to society to the mind; when any link snaps, the whole metaphysic... | |
 | Sandra Harding - 1993 - 548 str.
...Without this just gradation, could they be Subjected, these to those, or all to thee? • • • From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. The humblest, as well as the greatest, play their part in preserving the continuity of universal order;... | |
 | Dikka Berven - 1995 - 456 str.
...ours: Or in the full creation leave a void, Were, one step broken, the great scale's destroyed: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. [Epistle L viiij. The resemblance is strong between Pope's " vast chain of being " and Montaigne's... | |
 | William B. Meyer - 1996 - 268 str.
...eighteenth century on the "great chain of being" - "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" - was the view, common in his time and place, that extinction was impossible because it would undo... | |
 | Andrea K. Henderson - 1996 - 230 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. The restriction on upward mobility within the Chain has a socio-economic resonance: "On superior pow'rs... | |
 | Preben Mortensen - 1997 - 230 str.
...insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. . . . From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. (Pope [1733] 1951,136-37)... | |
 | Jozef Keulartz - 1998 - 212 str.
...egalitarian character. By way of illustration, he cites the following lines by Alexander Pope: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. (Lovejoy, 1936) As links in the great, but breakable, chain of nature, all beings are equally dependent... | |
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