A worm ! a god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost. At home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast. And wondering at her own. How reason reels . O, what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distressed! The Age of Pope - Page 82by John Dennis - 1896 - 258 pagesFull view - About this book
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...man is man. Triumphantly distress 'd ! what joy, what dread ! Alternately transported, and alarm'd ! What can preserve my life ! or what destroy ! An angel's...grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there. Tis past conjecture ; all things rise in proof; While o'et my limbs sleep's soft dominion spread, What... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...How reason reels . O, what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distressed! what joy ! what dread < Alternately transported and alarmed ! What can preserve...grave : Legions of angels can't confine me there. 'Tis past conjecture; all things rise in proof; While o'er my limbs sleep's soft dominion spread. What... | |
| Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 120 pages
...is man ! Triumphantly distress'd ! what joy, what dread ! Alternately transported, and alarin'd ! 30 What can preserve my life ? or what destroy ? An angel's...grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there. Tis past conjecture ; all things rise in proof. While o'er my limbs sleep's soft dominion spread, What*... | |
| John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...is man! 85 Triumphantly distress'd ! what joy ! what dread ! Alternately transported and alarm'd ; What can preserve my life ! or what destroy An angel's...grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there. 90 'Tis past conjecture ; all things rise in proof: While o'er my limbs Sleep's soft dominion spreadB,... | |
| Philander Chase - 1848 - 586 pages
...and from which he had selected the writer's Christian name, the following appropriate distich, — " An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there " Dr. Young's Niglit Thoughts. There they both lie in the grave-yard of the Episcopal Church in Cornish.... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 578 pages
...reason reels ! Oh ! what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distressed ! what joy ! what dread ! Alternately transported and alarmed ! What can preserve...grave ! Legions of angels can't confine me there. i PLEASURE. I I PLEASURES are fled, and fewer we enjoy ; If seized at last, compute your mighty gains... | |
| E. A. ANSLEY - 1849 - 288 pages
...glory, a frail child of dust, Helpless immortal, insect infinite ! A worm, a God ! I tremble at myself, What can preserve my life, or what destroy? An angel's...grave — Legions of angels can't confine me there.", — Young. "Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods; Aspiring... | |
| John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...is man! 85 Triumphantly distress'd ! what joy ! what droad ! Alternately transported and alarm'd ; What can preserve my life ! or what destroy An angel's...grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there. 90 'Tis past conjecture ; all things rise in proof: While o'er my limbs Sleep's soft dominion spread*,... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1849 - 348 pages
...distressed ! what joy ! what dread ! What can preserve my life ! or what destroy! 35. An angel's arm can 't snatch me from the grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there. 'T is past conjecture ; all things rise in proof. While o'er my limbs Sleep's soft dominion spread,... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast. And wondering at her own. How reason reels ! YOUNC O what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distressed...grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there. PROCRASTINATION. Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ;... | |
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