| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 páginas
...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 566 páginas
...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 ! DANIEL.* I HAVE thus endeavored, with an anxiety which may perhaps have misled me into prolixity,... | |
| Charles Augustus Ward - 1855 - 208 páginas
...expressing by lingual signs, truth in connection with itself. So Daniel says:— " And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ;" This is what poetry does for us in connecting us with and interesting us in truth ; which is a better,... | |
| Edward Tagart - 1855 - 530 páginas
...attaches him to the eternal and invisible, and bids him feel, with our old Daniel, that — " Unless above himself he can erect himself, How poor a thing is man ! " But mere criticisms on style, however desirable in works on rhetoric, are of little consequence... | |
| Lucius Edwin Smith - 1856 - 534 páginas
...all their power and progress only give new emphasis to the exclamation of the sage poet: " * * Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!" In view of the uncertainty that rested on his prospects, arising from the hostility of both English... | |
| Richard Congreve - 1857 - 444 páginas
...all-powerful compensation 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 man. The difficulties which surround us must become the materials which we use to rise above them. We may not... | |
| Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 páginas
...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 ! " I can stop to notice only one other passage, having a double interest, as expressing his thoughtful... | |
| 1858 - 734 páginas
...too may become beautiful and holy. Or in the quaint words of a writer of olden days, — . " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man 1 " Still farther, it is our duty in this world, full of God's love and majesty, to become nobler and... | |
| Dinah Maria Craik - 1859 - 424 páginas
...shall we altogether lose the memory of that strange dream of mine. THE SELF-SEEE, CHAPTER I. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! — WORDSWORTH. HERMAN WALDHOF was indulging in a love-reverie. He sat, leaning his chin upon his hand,... | |
| John Frederick Denison Maurice - 1860 - 332 páginas
...would have been too " palpably inapplicable even for his controversial " license. '"And that, unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ; And how turmoiled they are that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence, And... | |
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