 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 страници
...VVhy if it prosper, none dare call it treason.' Epigrams. Book 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. Stanza 12. MICHAEL DRAYTON. 1563-1631. For that fine madness still... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 страници
...misery Predominate : whose strong effects are As he must bear, being powerless to redress: Ami that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man. WILLIAM BYRD. [1540-1623.] MY MIND TO ME A KINGDOM IS. MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such |>erfeet joy... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 560 страници
...Predominate : whose strong effects are such, As he must bear, being powerless to redress: And that nnless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man. WILLIAM BIRD. [1540-1613.] VVM ! N : • TO ME A KINGDOM IS. Mr mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect... | |
 | James Tunstall - 1876 - 600 страници
...world kin." This "touch" he never knew, and as the old Somersetshire poet, Samuel Daniel, said — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man." The productions of his later years were unworthy the author of Vathek. The exquisite sentiment from that... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 страници
...Predominate : whose utrong effects are such Ac he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that nson !' " Happy is he who lives to understand — Not human nature only, but explores All natures, — to... | |
 | George Bruce - 1876 - 642 страници
...spirit steered hy enlightened Faith — Not stone-hlind Bigotry which makes God a myth. In truth, " unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " l 1 The last couplet is taken from Daniel. And the prophet is right — it helps to explain, if... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1876 - 562 страници
...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. WILLIAM BIRD. [1540-1623.l MY MIND TO MB A KINGDOM IS. MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 страници
..... 343-372 373-3S8 i UNIVKRSITY OF OALII'XMNIA. • CHARACTER. CHAPTER I. INFLUENCE OF CHARACTER. * Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man !" — Daniel. "Character Is moral order seen through the medium of an individual uatnro ... , / Wf... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1877 - 164 страници
...And thus we realize the truth of those lines of Daniel which Coleridge was so fond of quoting: — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " Individual man is weak, ignorant, liable to deceive and be deceived. But the human nature of which... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1877 - 164 страници
...And thus we realize the truth of those lines of Daniel which Coleridge was so fond of quoting : — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " Individual man is weak, ignorant, liable to deceive and be deceived. But the human nature of which... | |
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Still roll ; where all the aspects of 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... 
