 | Q. K. Philander Doesticks - 1857 - 226 páginas
...firm accord, As with unfaltering accent to conclude That this availeth naught ! Has any seea SUMMER* The mighty chain of beings, lessening down From Infinite...Perfection to the brink Of dreary nothing, desolate abyss ! From which astonish'd thought, recoiling, turns ? Till then alone let zealous praise ascend, And... | |
 | Jabez Hogg - 1858 - 644 páginas
...iheir dependence so, and firm accord, As with unfaltering accent to conclude That this availeth nought? Has any seen The mighty chain of beings, lessening...perfection to the brink Of dreary nothing, desolate abyss! From which astonish'd thought, recoiling, turns? Till then, alone let zealous praise ascend, And hymns... | |
 | James Thomson - 1861 - 480 páginas
...unfaltering accent to'conclu5£ f That this availeth nought? Has any seen.; The'mighty chain of bemgih lessening down From Infinite Perfection to the brink Of dreary Nothing, desolate abyss ! From which astonish'd thought, recoiling, turns ? Till then alone let zealous praise ascend, And... | |
 | James Thomson - 1862 - 272 páginas
...dependence so, and firm accord, As with unfaltering accent to conclude That this availeth nought ? Has any seen The mighty chain of beings, lessening down From infinite perfection to the brink Of dreay nothing, desolate abyss! From which, astonish'd thought, recoiling, turns ? Till then, alone... | |
 | Elihu Burritt - 1864 - 164 páginas
...necessary part. Just so it is in the moral world. No man stands alone, nor high angel, nor child. All the beings " lessening down from Infinite Perfection to the brink of dreary nothing," belong to a system of mutual dependencies. All and each constitute and enjoy a part of the world's... | |
 | James Thomson - 1868 - 416 páginas
...dependence so, and firm accord, As with unfalt'ring accent to conclude That this availeth naught ? Has auy seen The mighty chain of beings, lessening down From...to the brink Of dreary nothing — desolate abyss ! From which astonish'd thought, recoiling, turns 1 Till then alone let zealous praise ascend, And... | |
 | 1884 - 1442 páginas
...guided the exhibition of the myriad objects that compose it. " Has any seen the mighty chain of being, lessening down from Infinite Perfection to the brink of dreary nothing — desolate abyss ?" has often run through my memory, and never before did I imagine I had come so near to finding an... | |
 | Erastus Edgerton Marcy, Franklin W. Hunt - 1868 - 968 páginas
...manifestations of life and descending to the lowest, we survey in a regular series " The mighty chain of being lessening down From infinite perfection to the brink Of dreary 'nothing ; desolate abyss ! From which astonished thought recoiling turns." If we now review the scale of living beings by ascending... | |
 | Erastus Edgerton Marcy - 1868 - 966 páginas
...manifestations of life and descending to the lowest, we survey in a regular series " The mighty chain of being lessening down From infinite perfection to the brink Of dreary nothing ; desolate abyss ! From which astonished thought recoiling turns." If we now review the scale of living beings by ascending... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 168 páginas
...This idea is of constant recurrence in the poetry of that age. Cf. Thomson, Summer (17 2 7). 333 = ' The mighty chain of beings, lessening down From infinite...perfection, to the brink Of dreary nothing, desolate abyss !' Dryden, Ode on St. Cecilia's Day (1687), 240 : ' From harmony, from heav'nly harmony, This universal... | |
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Has any seen The mighty chain of beings, lessening down From Infinite Perfection to the brink Of dreary nothing, desolate abyss ! From which astonish'd thought, recoiling, turns? 
