 | 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,...is man ! How passing wonder he, who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes \ From diff'rent natures marvellously mixt, Connexion... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1825 - 788 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 greatness absolute ! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! Fertile... | |
 | 1826 - 398 oldal
...even this, is the life of man, in the sight of God, who is from ever and for ever." Pope's Letters. " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...wonderful is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such ; Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! Distinguish'd link in beings' endless chain, Midway... | |
 | 1826 - 488 oldal
...of human intelligence is altogether impassable by them, justifying the exclamation of the poet ; — How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is Man ! Section 5. ON THE PHYSICAL POWERS OF MAN. In form erect, and mien majestic, MAN , His lordly stamp... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 oldal
...narrow verge Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss, A dread eternity, — 6 how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour ? 7 How poor, 8 how rich, 9 how abject, I0 how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! II How... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 oldal
...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...wonderful is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who center'd in our make such strange extremes From different natures marvellously mix'd, Connexion... | |
 | 1827 - 290 oldal
...long arrear. Nor let the vial of thy vengeance pour'd On this dfited head, be pour'd in vain, page 14. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...is man ! How passing wonder He, who made him such ! Who center'd in our make such strange extremes ! p. 15. All, all on earth is shadow, all beyond Is... | |
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! 
