 | H. D. - 1843 - 438 pages
...Thy brightness gaze ? Anoint, O Lord, anoint my sight, And robe me for that world of light ! ANON. 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 !... | |
 | 1843 - 582 pages
...Melancholy. It was no such emotion that dictated the beautiful lines of the contemplative Young : " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! A beam ctlicrial, sullied and absorpt ! Though sullied and dishonored, still divine. Dim miniature... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 pages
...in the world to follow this, May each repeat, in words of bliss, We're all— all here ! MAN. YOUNG. 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 !... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...long arrear : Nor let the phial of thy vengeance, poured On this devoted head, be poured in vain. * * emerging from a cloud, Her countenance brightens and her eye expands ; H is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centered in our make such strange extremes,... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1844 - 274 pages
...of the world ! the paragon of animals !" or, with the Poet of the Night repeat these lines : — " 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... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - 1844 - 302 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,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 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... | |
 | 1845 - 610 pages
...expressed the antithetic constitution of his nature— physical as well as moral — when he exclaims — How poor, how rich ! how abject, how august ! How complicate, how wonderful is Man ! * * * • * An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust ! Helpless immortal ! Insect infinite... | |
 | Thomas Fisher - 1845 - 240 pages
...interest, of noble endowments. He is the greatest wonder of the wonderful world we are contemplating — " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man, How passing wonder He who made him such." God, who doubtless designed to create a race of beings... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 292 pages
...taken a kingdom from Augustus, I have kept nothing to w self." LESSON FORTY-SIXTH. The Human Paradox. 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... | |
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! 
