 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
 | John Hall - 1845 - 320 pages
...absorpt* ! Though sullied and dishonored', still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! 25 An heir of glory', a frail child of dust' ! Helpless...lost*. At home a stranger', Thought wanders up' and downv, surprised', aghast', 30 And wondering at her own'. How reasonv reels* ! O what a miracle to... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 448 pages
...Deity*! A beam ethereal', sullied-', and absorptM Though sullied*, and dishonour'd', still divine*? Dim miniature' of greatness absolute*! An heir of...a god*! — I tremble' at myself, And in myself am lostM at home a stranger', Thought wanders up and down, surprised*, aghast And wondering at her own*:... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845
...Though sullied and dishonour'd, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute I An heir of glory I a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal ! insect...god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost" One instance more, and we turn to passages of a different character. " Lorenzo, blnsh at terror for... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 184 pages
...less happy. A beam ethereal, sullied, and absorb'd ! Though sullied and dishonour'd, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! An heir of glory...dust ! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! n god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost." One instance more, and we turn to pasages of... | |
 | 1845
...— 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 ! A worm ! a God ! A TREATISE ON THE USE OF THE SYMPATHETIC NEHVB AND ITS GANGLIONS, WITH THEIR INFLUENCE ON VARIOUS... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1845
...[tEsdras II. ch. 7. 46.] his dreams and his doom — in short they have not learned to set in opposition, "An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god !" Poetry, which is the language of nature, uttered with the least reserve or disguise, is full of... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 792 pages
...child of dust ! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! — I tremble at myself, 80 o Q0 Q0 Q0 ! 0, what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distressed ! What joy ! what dread ! Alternately transported... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 889 pages
...frail child of dust, Helpless immortal, insect infinite, A worm, a god ! — I tremble at myself, 80 rom the passion-flower at the gate, 60 Oh, what a miracle to man is man, Triumphantly distressed! What joy, what dread, 85 Alternately transported... | |
 | John Henry Newman, Julius Joseph Gliebe - 1916 - 92 pages
...nothing to the Deity ! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt; Though sullied and dishonored, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ; An heir of glory...Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! A god ! Night Thoughts. Man. 132. More than the Seraph . . . How beautiful and touching the sympathy of the... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1432 pages
...the Deity I 75 A beam ethereal, sullied, and absorpt ! Though sullied and dishonored, still divine ! l in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more;...endure, 25 As more exposed to suffering and distr 80 A worm! a god!— I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost! At home a stranger, Thought wanders... | |
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