 Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt! Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust: Helpless...  The Age of Pope (1700-1744) - Page 82by John Dennis - 1906 - 260 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pages
...the deity! A beam ethereal, sullied, and absorpt! 75 Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory!...infinite! A worm! a god! — I tremble at myself, 80 And in myself am lost! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wond'ring... | |
 | 1925 - 1072 pages
...sullied and dishonoured, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute, An heir of glory, and frail child of dust — Helpless, immortal, insect, infinite, A worm ! a God ! Even silent night proclaims my soul immortal. And this our critic terms ' strutting and straining.'... | |
 | 1925 - 1028 pages
...sullied and dishonoured, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute. An heir of glory, and frail child of dust — Helpless, immortal, insect, infinite, A worm ! a God ! Even silent night proclaims my soul immortal. And this our critic terms ' strutting and straining.'... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1977 - 308 pages
...Romantic, there are eighteenth-century analogues for it, most notably in Edward Young's Night Thoughts: I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost! at home a stranger, / o 6 Thought wanders up and down, surpris'd, aghast, And wondering at her own: How Reason reels! [Night... | |
 | Gerald Henry Levin - 1978 - 192 pages
...easily defined feelings. Richardson's friend, Edward Young, writes in his Night-Thoughts of 1 742: A Worm! a God - I tremble at myself, And in myself...lost! At home a Stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surpris'd, aghast, And wond'ring at her own: How Reason reels! O what a Miracle to Man is Man, Triumphantly... | |
 | David Brion Davis - 1988 - 521 pages
...voice of eternity.62 The actual world was cold and colorless; and man was thrown back upon himself: Helpless Immortal! Insect infinite. A worm! a God!...myself, And in myself am lost! At home a stranger . . .63 59Colie, Light and Enlightenment, pp. 49-59; Basil Willey, The SeventeenthCentury Background... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - 1989 - 348 pages
...the beginning of Young's entire poem, in a section where he describes the contrasting nature of man: An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm! a god!4 In 1805 Wordsworth had spoken of man's Godhead ("a god!" as Young had said) and had celebrated... | |
 | Sarah Pratt - 2000 - 328 pages
...exquisite of distant worlds! Distinguish'd link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm! a God! . . .'6 It is clear that a strain of poetry inspired by Young had been successfully transplanted in... | |
 | Robert L. Paquette, Lou Ferleger - 2000 - 256 pages
...religious poet who was much favored by the British abolitionists: "Helpless Immortal! Insect infinitel IA worm! a God! I tremble at myself, / And in myself am lost! At home a stranger."9 Defining ourselves as rational animals, Homo sapiens, we continue to marvel over our amazing... | |
 | Gina Luria Walker - 2005 - 352 pages
...the tender thought To reason, and on reason build resolve (That column of true majesty in man) [...] Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory!...a god! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost! ] [Portions of Alexander Pope's poetry were frequently memorized, then used in all sorts of public... | |
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