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
| 1838 - 884 pages
...! An heir of glory 1 a frail child of dust 1 Helpless immortal ! insect infinite 1 A worm ! a god 1 I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost ! At home...aghast, And wondering at her own : how reason reels ! Oh, what a miracle to man is man, Trinmphantly distress 'd ! what joy, what dread ! Alternately transported,... | |
| Joseph Benson - 1817 - 630 pages
...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...Helpless! Immortal! Insect! Infinite'. A Worm ! A God ! But how much more applicable is the greater part of this description to the God Man Christ Jesus,... | |
| 1818 - 728 pages
...absorpt! Though sullied and dishonour'd, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! AiTheir of glory ! a frail child of dust ! Helpless immortal! insect infinite ! A worm! a God)" The noble passage is thus not unsuccessfully modernized, we think, in the work before us : " Turn inward... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...Deity' ! A beam ethereal', sullied', and absorpt' ! Though sullied', and dishonoured', still divine' \ Dim miniature' of greatness absolute' ! An heir of...Thought wanders up and down, surprised', aghast', And wond'ring at her own' : how reason reels' ! O what a miracle to man' is mnn', Triumphantly distressed'... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...Deity ! A beam ethereal, sullied, and absorp'd! ' t Though sullied and dishonour'd, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! • An heir...! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surpris'd, aghast, And wondering at her own: How reason reels! O what a miracle to man is man, Triumphantly... | |
| 1851 - 432 pages
...Meddwl a tby warchen yn cymdeithasu ! " An heir of glory, » frail child of dust, Helpless, hn mortal, insect, infinite, A worm, a god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost." Dyma arglwydd y corff ; y mae fei ager yn ei yru yn mlaen, ас yn ei gynhyrfu i weithredu. Ond er... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 412 pages
...to the Deity ! A beam ethereal, sully'd and absorpt ! Though sully'd and dishonour'd, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! An heir of glory...! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surpris'd, aghast, And wondering at her own : How Reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man, Triumphantly... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 pages
...to the Deity. A beam etherial, sullied and absorpt ! Though sullied and dishonour'd, still divine. Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! An heir of glory...child of dust ! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite I A worm ! a god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself, am lost ! at home a stranger ; Thought wanders... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 284 pages
...the Deity! A beam etherial, sullied and absorp'd ! , Though sullied and dishonour'd, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal 1 insect infinite ! A worm! a God!—I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost. At home a stranger,... | |
| 1822 - 336 pages
...to the Deity ! A beam ethereal, sullied, and absorpt, Though sullied and dishonour'd, still divine : Dim miniature of greatness absolute, An heir of glory, a frail child of dui,t, Helpless immortal, insect infinite, A worm — a God ! Yooso's Tfifht Thoughts. under which... | |
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