| Sharon Turner - 1832 - 430 pages
...feelings — the thoughts—and the powers of.our. (3) Yioung's impressive lines have this allusion:— "How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man ! Connection exquisite of distant worlds ! Midway from nothing, to the Deity! 4.' beam ethereal, sullied... | |
| John Lauris Blake - 1833 - 274 pages
...taken a kingdom from Augustus, I have kept nothing to F self." LESSON FORTY-SIXTH. The Human Paradox. How poor! how rich! how abject! how august! How complicate!...man! How passing wonder HE who made him such! Who centred in our make such strange extremes! From different natures, marvellously mixed, Connexion exquisite... | |
| Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1833 - 324 pages
...its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such !'" These lines were enunciated with deep sensibility, as he viewed the brilliant theatre, contrasted... | |
| Edward Nares - 1834 - 366 pages
...himself perhaps the greatest, as has been well, and not extravagantly shown both in poetry and prose. " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...Who centered in our make such strange extremes, From diflTrent natures marvellously mix'd, Connection exquisite of distant worlds ! Distinguished link in... | |
| Edward Young - 1834 - 370 pages
...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,...man ! How passing wonder He, who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From diff 'rent natures marvellously mixt, Connexion exquisite... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 228 pages
...poetically enlarged upon, would fill pages, better calculated to please, as well as to instruct, " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...man! How passing wonder He who made him such! Who centr'd in our make such strange extremes! From different natures, marvellously mix'd, Connexion excjuisite... | |
| Flowers - 1835 - 174 pages
...whilst I sumptuously fared, Forgotten the Hand that my banquet prepared. LXVII. CONTRARIETIES IN MAN. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...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 exquisite... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...beams of grace and glory. Who can contemplate so mysterious a process of the mind, without exclaiming, How poor, how rich, how abject, how august. How complicate,...man ! How passing wonder He, who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! It is impossible to dwell on the manner of Cowper's death,... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 446 pages
...process of the mind, without exclaiming, How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, bow wonderful is man ! How passing wonder He, who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! It is impossible to dwell on the manner of Cowper's death,... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 448 pages
...beams of grace and glory. Who can contemplate so mysterious a process of the mind, without exclaiming, How poor, how rich, how abject, how august. How complicate,...man ! How passing wonder He, who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! It is impossible to dwell on the manner of Cowper's death,... | |
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