 | Sharon Turner - 1833 - 594 oldal
...accelerate this grand consummation of our destiny. 4 Young's impressive lines have this allusion : — ' How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! Connexion exquisite of distant worlds ! Midway from nothing, to the Deity ! A beam ethereal, sully'd... | |
 | Edward Young - 1837 - 556 oldal
...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? Kow poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 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...is man ! How passing wonder HE, who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From different natures marvellously mixt, Connexion... | |
 | 1838 - 876 oldal
...either in poetry or philosophy — throughout the whole range of the creation of English genius? '< 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 ! From different natures marvellously mix'd, Connection... | |
 | 1883 - 998 oldal
...Whole pages may be described as an expansion of those vigorous lines in Young's Night Thoughts : — "How poor, how rich, — how abject, how august,— How complicate, how wonderful, is Man!" Pascal puts this paradox in the figure of a self-conscious and sentient reed, — a figure which, after... | |
 | H. N. Fairchild - 2010 - 428 oldal
...pessimistic and exuberantly optimistic; he preaches the nothingness of man, and elevates him to the stars:" How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite! A worm! a god!" For some inexplicable reason both Young's contemporaries... | |
 | 1925 - 1072 oldal
...innumerable passages that appeal to the heart as well as to the intellect. I may select the following : How poor, how rich, how abject, how august. How complicate,...wonderful is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centred in one make such strong extremes ! From different natures marvellously mixt. Connexion... | |
 | Royall Tyler - 1970 - 234 oldal
...constitution! I could not refrain from adopting the language of Doctor Young, and exclaiming in parody, How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful are Britons! How passing wonder they who made them such, Who center 'd in their make such strange extremes... | |
 | 1925 - 1028 oldal
...innumerable passages that appeal to the heart as well as to the intellect. I may select the following : How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...wonderful is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centred in one make such strong extremes ! From different natures marvellously mixt, Connexion... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 oldal
...listening ear an object finds; Creation sleeps. And having set the scene he proceeds with his meditations: How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young's vocabulary, while consistently dignified, is not Miltonic or pseudo-Miltonic. Though a rhetorical... | |
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! 
