 | Edward Young - 1810 - 278 oldal
...and o'er life's narrow verge '! nok down— on what? A fathomless abyss ; Ircad eternity ! how Burely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner...on the bounties of an hour? How poor, how rich, how abje«t, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder HE who made him such... | |
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 380 oldal
...is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm' d, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down— on what ? a fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how...how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, hjfw wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder HE, who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange... | |
 | 1813 - 1368 oldal
...is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how...belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour 1" Can time be lost ? Yes ! its use may. If unimproved it has been lost by us ; we arc none the better... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 oldal
...character of men in their habits and when this vast distance of state is the ground of the difference ! " How poor ! how rich '. how abject, how august ! How complicate ! how wonderful is Man ! From different natures marvellously mixed, Connexion exquisite of distant worlds ! Distinguished... | |
 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 oldal
...is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down. — On what? a fathomless abyss ! A dread eternity ! how...mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner oil the bounties of an hour ? How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful,... | |
 | Elizabeth Carter - 1817 - 372 oldal
...character has certainly been a very extraordinary phenomenon in the moral and political world. • • i " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful*!" . You have read in the papers ah account of the attempt made to disable the Trident, mentioned under... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 oldal
...to be done ! my hopes and fears' Start up alarm'd', and o'er life's narrow verge Look down' — On what' ? a fathomless abyss' ; A dread eternity'. How...mine' ! And can eternity belong to me', Poor pensioner OH the bounties of an hour'? 5 ^,. • BLANK VERSE. , .551 How poor', how rich', how abject', how august',... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 oldal
...is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what ? — A fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity !...to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour. Night 2. WHAT if (since daring on so nice a theme) I show thee friendship delicate, as dear, Of tender... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 oldal
...assertion too little positive, for a proverb, properly so called ; as, for instance, his exclamation, — " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man ! " and this, — " An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave ; Legions of angels can't confine... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 680 oldal
...and fastidious in all his works — he more than realizes a gloomy poet's description of man : — 41 How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful!" We need scarcely recommend a smill and cheap volume, which give« a faithful picture of this extraordinary... | |
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How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss, A dread eternity, how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor,... 
