| E.C. Wines - 1871 - 680 páginas
...what experience has taught to other peoples in their area of action. What is true of the individual that " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " is equally true of states and kingdoms and empires. As no individual can stand alone, so neither... | |
| Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 páginas
...misery Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that, unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! ' " Happy is he who lives to understand Not human nature only, but explores All natures, to the end... | |
| Horae, Henry Holmes Joy - 1873 - 374 páginas
...disturbances Still roll . . . whose strong effects are such As he must bear being powerless to redress, And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! Wordsworth and Daniel. Every measure intrinsically just will be Perseverance, finally carried. Let... | |
| John Dennis - 1873 - 280 páginas
...Daniel, the author of the well-known couplet quoted by Coleridge in his " Aids to Reflection " : — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man," has produced a great deal of rugged and vigorous verse, but of his fifty-seven sonnets To Delia, the... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1873 - 430 páginas
...altogether too rich for such poor acting. I am hardly worthy to be a suburban dweller outside those walls. " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " With our music we would fain challenge transiently another and finer sort of intercourse than our... | |
| Jane Margaret Hooper - 1874 - 584 páginas
...Cumberland. Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " It was the middle of July, and the lime-trees were in blossom. All along that glorious avenue they... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 páginas
...of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being helpless to redress: And that, unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! DANIEL. THK recluse Hermit ofttimes more doth know Of the world's inmost wheels, than worldlings can;... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 páginas
...Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.2 Epigrams. Booh iv. Ep. 5. SAMUEL DANIEL. 1562-1619. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! To the Countess of Cumberland. Stan2a 12. MICHAEL DRAYTON. 1563-1631. For that fine madness still... | |
| Richard Congreve - 1874 - 634 páginas
...all-powerful compen/ sation at once for the evils of our condition, and for the hopes we renounce. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is m an The difficulties which surround us must become the materials which we use to rise above them.... | |
| |