 | W. K. - 1865 - 238 oldal
...misery Predominate, whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! And how turmoiled are they that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence ; That... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 oldal
...move in their ordered ellipses, to originate a spiritual vitality, — this was perhaps greater. " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor .a thing is man." Unless above himself; yet, if beyond or outside of his world, how useless and purposeless a thing.... | |
 | W. K. - 1865 - 260 oldal
...misery Predominate, whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! And how turmoiled are they that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence ; That... | |
 | 1866 - 870 oldal
...rate, they are not above it ; and culture is that which raises us from a lower level to a higher, " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " Not, alas ! (except under rare and happy circumstances) from the minister, priest, or rabbi, whose... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 314 oldal
...dreaded.- He is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him. " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! " Newspaper editors argue also that it is a proof of his insanity that he thought he was appointed... | |
 | 1866 - 570 oldal
...rate, they are not above it ; and culture is that which raises us from a lower level to a higher. " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man !" Not, alas ! (except under rare and happy circumstances) from the minister, priest, or rabbi, whose... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1866 - 240 oldal
...and what is the nature of the work ? 15. Name the authors of the following lines : — (1) ' And that unless above himself he can Erect himself — how poor a thing is man ! ' (2) ' Under this curled marble of thine own, Sleep, rare tragedian, Shakspere, sleep alone ! '... | |
 | 1866 - 294 oldal
...troops of friends, he must earn them by a virtuous youth, a useful manhood, and a well-spent life. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! To a soul that ever felt the sting Of sorrow, sorrow is a sacred thing. FABLE CI. THE HORSE AND THE... | |
 | Joseph Bullar - 1868 - 188 oldal
...that Light which will show it where it can get strength — even by means of this very weakness. " Unless above himself he can erect himself, How poor a thing is man ! " •OBSERVATION DEVELOPED IN SOCIAL CULTURE. ATTENTION to others being an essential point in good... | |
 | Thomas Binney - 1869 - 418 oldal
...virtues ; and a poet of our own day, reasoning on purely natural principles, says, or sings, — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself,— how poor a thing is man ! " Fearing, then, we may almost suppose, that Christians might learn to be temperate and patient rather... | |
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Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man... 
