 | John Aikin - 1821 - 412 pagine
...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 centered in our make such strange extremes ! From different natures marvclously mist, Canneclion exquisite... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 pagine
...assertion too little positive, for a proverb, properly so called ; as, for instance, his exclamation, — " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man ! " and this, — " An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave ; Legions of angels can't confine... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 680 pagine
...and fastidious in all his works — he more than realizes a gloomy poet's description of man : — 41 How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful!" We need scarcely recommend a smill and cheap volume, which give« a faithful picture of this extraordinary... | |
 | 1822 - 336 pagine
...emblem of human things, all of which, like man himself, have two totally different points of view, * How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...strange extremes ! From different natures marvellously mix'd, Connexion exquisite of distant worlds '. Distinguish'd link in being's endless chain, Midway... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 pagine
...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,...strange extremes ! From different natures marvellously mix'd, Connexion exquisite of distant worlds ! Distinguish'd link in being's endless chain ! Midway... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 pagine
...eternity! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to mo, 1'i.ni pensioner on the bounties of an hour? How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...such! Who centred in our make such strange extremes I From different natures marvellously mix'd, Connexion exquisite of distant worlds ! Distinguish'd... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 pagine
...spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear — whatever is, is right. MAM. Young How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...wonderful is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such t Who center'd in his make such strange extremes } From different natures marvellously mixt; Connexion... | |
 | 1840 - 1122 pagine
...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... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1823 - 586 pagine
...— •• How poor, how rich— how abject, how augustHow complicate, how wonderful is man ! Ho« passing wonder HE who made him such !— Who centred in our make men strange extremes. From different natures marvellously mix'd ! Connexion exquisite of different... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pagine
...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,...Who centred in our make such strange extremes \ From diff'rent natures marvellously mixt, Connexion exquisite of distant worlds ! Distinguisht link in being's... | |
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He who made him such, Who centred in our make such strange extremes! From different natures marvellously mixed, Connection exquisite of distant worlds!... 
