 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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,...wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such! Who centred in our make such strange extremes I From different natures marvellously mix'd, Connexion... | |
 | Arminianism - 1840 - 1122 pages
...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... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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,...wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder he, who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes \ From diff'rent natures marvellously mixt, Connexion... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1824 - 312 pages
...with unlimited freedom wherever the light of science or the enterprize of thought can penetrate: — " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august ; How complicate, how wonderful is man I" Night Thoughts, The whale, however, is a fellow-creature with which I can sympathize little more... | |
 | Christianity - 1825 - 788 pages
...meekness was so much extolled by a certain popular orator, we cannot help exclaiming, with the poetHow poor ! how rich ! how abject ! how august ! How complicate ! how wonderful is man ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! Fertile... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 816 pages
...meekness was so much extolled by a certain popular orator, we cannot help exclaiming, with the poetHow poor ! how rich ! how abject ! how august ! How complicate ! how wonderful is man ! Dim miniature of pp-eatness absolute ! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! Fertile... | |
 | 1826 - 398 pages
...even this, is the life of man, in the sight of God, who is from ever and for ever." Pope's Letters. " 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 ! Distinguish'd link in beings' endless chain,... | |
 | Edward Young - Didactic poetry, English - 1826 - 284 pages
...eternity ! how surely mine ! 65 And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder Ilo who made him such! 70 Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From different natures marvellously... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1826 - 488 pages
...of human intelligence is altogether impassable by them, justifying the exclamation of the poet ; — How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is Man ! Section 5. ON THE PHYSICAL POWERS OF MAN. In form erect, and mien majestic, MAN , His lordly stamp... | |
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