 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
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 | 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.'... | |
 | Dennis Davison - 1973 - 364 pages
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 | Martin Price - 1973 - 852 pages
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 | 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... | |
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 | 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... | |
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