 | John Aikin - 1821 - 412 oldal
...eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder He, who made him such ! Who centered in our make such strange extremes ! From... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 oldal
...eternity! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to mo, 1'i.ni pensioner on the bounties of an hour? How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such! Who centred in our make such strange extremes I From different... | |
 | 1822 - 336 oldal
...emblem of human things, all of which, like man himself, have two totally different points of view, * How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such, Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From different... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 oldal
...spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear — whatever is, is right. MAM. Young How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such t Who center'd in his make such strange extremes } From different... | |
 | 1840 - 1122 oldal
...strange extremes " of humanity, than in the beautifully concise, yet expressive, lines of Young ? " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful ii man! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 oldal
...taken, know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 10. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder he, who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes \ From diff'rent... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1824 - 312 oldal
...with unlimited freedom wherever the light of science or the enterprize of thought can penetrate: — " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august ; How complicate, how wonderful is man I" Night Thoughts, The whale, however, is a fellow-creature with which I can sympathize little more... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 816 oldal
...meekness was so much extolled by a certain popular orator, we cannot help exclaiming, with the poetHow poor ! how rich ! how abject ! how august ! How complicate ! how wonderful is man ! Dim miniature of pp-eatness absolute ! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! Fertile... | |
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! 
