 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...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, how wonderful is man ! How passing wonder he who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes !... | |
 | Christian - 1840 - 318 pages
...whom we bend the knee, Creator, Father, Friend to me, And God of endless days. CONTRARIETIES IN MAN. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is Man ! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who center'd in our make such strange extremes From... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...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, how wonderful is man! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From... | |
 | 1841 - 346 pages
...extremes of honor and dishonor—of dignity and vileness — of exaltation and humility, are blended. " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man ! From different natures marv'lously mixt, Connection exquisite of distant worlds, Distinguish... | |
 | William Holland Wilmer - 1841 - 334 pages
...is magnificence ; but it is magnificence in ruins. And truly we may say the same of human nature. " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man!" Generosity, gratitude, fidelity, and the exercise of many high and heroic virtues between... | |
 | 1841 - 404 pages
...extremes of honor and dishonor — of dignity and vileness — of exaltation and humility, are blended. "How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man ! From different natures marv'loualy mixt, Connection exquisite of distant worlds, Distinguish'd... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...august, complicate, wonderful. A ir t - m m V •1 f— • — * — ' v • • m ~ . f f T m, ..-. How poor,, how rich', how abject, how august', How complicate, how wonderful is man ! Diag. 31. time, wrong, contumely, love, delay, office, spurns, For who would bear the whips... | |
 | 1857 - 830 pages
...linking him to the skies, the antitheses of his being find in Dr. Young a forcible presentation : " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is mnn ! How passing wonder HE who made him such I Who centered in our make such strange extremes!... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 pages
...and lost lay these, covering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change. (Milton's Par. Lost^ How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate , how wonderful is man ! (Young's N. Th.) I. MALEVOLENT, 2. MALICIOUS, 3. MALIGNANT. 1. UrtetfooKenb, uWgefmnt; 2.... | |
 | 1842 - 488 pages
...himself must withdraw. "To-morrow" is a period too distant for him to calculate upon it with certainty. " How poor, how rich; how abject, how august; How complicate ; how wonderful is man ! " The little study contains works of art, and some curious natural productions. Among the... | |
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! 
