| 1838 - 884 pages
...either in poetry or philosophy — throughout the whole range of the creation of English genins ? " 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 !... | |
| Elizabeth Carter - 1817 - 372 pages
...character has certainly been a very extraordinary phenomenon in the moral and political world. • • i " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful*!" . You have read in the papers ah account of the attempt made to disable the Trident, mentioned under... | |
| Adam Neale - 1818 - 346 pages
...emotions, till then unknown, were awakened, and that sublime passage rushed forcibly on my mind : " How poor ! how rich ! how abject ! how august ! How complicate ! how wonderful is man ! How passing wonder HE who made him such, Who centered in our make such strange extremes, From... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...can eternity belong to me', Poor pensioner OH the bounties of an hour'? 5 ^,. • BLANK VERSE. , .551 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'... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 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... | |
| Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...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!... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 680 pages
...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... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 412 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 centered in our make such strange extremes... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 pages
...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... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 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, how wonderful is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such t Who center'd in his make such strange extremes }... | |
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