| Edward Higginson - 1863 - 556 страници
...God. What are those lines, uncle, that you quoted last night ? " M. They are Samuel Daniel's : ' That unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is Irian !' And so he is. "A Something like that couplet is what Coleridge has written in his biography,... | |
| Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1864 - 358 страници
...something to have real principle in times like these — a sense of things beyond our frail nature — even where the feeling of the eternal is saddened by too...himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man !"t The British Critic is a highly respectable work, which does not require our praise, or offer any... | |
| 1864 - 398 страници
...that which is higher than himself. Unless this is done, climate, color, race, will avail nothing. • unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " For my own part, I believe that the brilliant world of the tropics, with its marvels of nature,... | |
| Emily Taylor - 1864 - 210 страници
...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 ! SAMUEL DANIEL. Ransack. THE SELF-BANISHED. SONG. |T is not that I love you less Than when before... | |
| W. K. - 1865 - 260 страници
...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 ! And how turmoiled are they that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence ; That... | |
| W. K. - 1865 - 238 страници
...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 ! And how turmoiled are they that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence ; That... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 страници
...move in their ordered ellipses, to originate a spiritual vitality, — this was perhaps greater. " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor .a thing is man." Unless above himself; yet, if beyond or outside of his world, how useless and purposeless a thing.... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1866 - 240 страници
...and what is the nature of the work ? 15. Name the authors of the following lines : — (1) ' And that unless above himself he can Erect himself — how poor a thing is man ! ' (2) ' Under this curled marble of thine own, Sleep, rare tragedian, Shakspere, sleep alone ! '... | |
| 1866 - 294 страници
...troops of friends, he must earn them by a virtuous youth, a useful manhood, and a well-spent life. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! To a soul that ever felt the sting Of sorrow, sorrow is a sacred thing. FABLE CI. THE HORSE AND THE... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 314 страници
...dreaded.- He is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him. " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! " Newspaper editors argue also that it is a proof of his insanity that he thought he was appointed... | |
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