 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - Liczba stron: 342
...eternity ! How surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...strange extremes ! From different natures marvellously mixt, Connexion exquisite of distant worlds! Distinguished link in being's endless chain ! Midway from... | |
 | 1838 - Liczba stron: 876
...either in poetry or philosophy — throughout the whole range of the creation of English genius? '< How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...strange extremes ! From different natures marvellously mix'd, Connection exquisite of distant worlds ! Distinguish'd link in being's endless chain ! Midway... | |
 | 1838 - Liczba stron: 938
...throughout the whole range of the and sustained. The vast wings of the creation of English genius ? " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man ! How passing wonder HZ who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From different natures marvellously... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1839 - Liczba stron: 416
...certainty of them, to all who can contemplate them, * Young's impressive lines have this allusion :— 11 How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! Connexion exquisite of distant worlds ! Midway from nothing, to the Deity ! A beam ethereal, sully'd... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1838 - Liczba stron: 540
...the exclusive "study of mankind is man." But what an inexhaustible and incomprehensible theme rtna.nl "How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful ia man! Connexion exquisite of distant worlds! Distinguish 'd link in being's endless chain! Midway... | |
 | 1883 - Liczba stron: 998
...Whole pages may be described as an expansion of those vigorous lines in Young's Night Thoughts : — "How poor, how rich, — how abject, how august,— How complicate, how wonderful, is Man!" Pascal puts this paradox in the figure of a self-conscious and sentient reed, — a figure which, after... | |
 | H. N. Fairchild - 2010 - Liczba stron: 428
...pessimistic and exuberantly optimistic; he preaches the nothingness of man, and elevates him to the stars:" How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite! A worm! a god!" For some inexplicable reason both Young's contemporaries... | |
 | 1925 - Liczba stron: 1072
...innumerable passages that appeal to the heart as well as to the intellect. I may select the following : How poor, how rich, how abject, how august. How complicate,...passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centred in one make such strong extremes ! From different natures marvellously mixt. Connexion exquisite of distant... | |
 | Royall Tyler - 1970 - Liczba stron: 234
...constitution! I could not refrain from adopting the language of Doctor Young, and exclaiming in parody, How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful are Britons! How passing wonder they who made them such, Who center 'd in their make such strange extremes... | |
 | 1925 - Liczba stron: 1028
...innumerable passages that appeal to the heart as well as to the intellect. I may select the following : How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centred in one make such strong extremes ! From different natures marvellously mixt, Connexion exquisite of distant... | |
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! How passing wonder He who made him such, Who centred in our make such strange extremes! From different natures marvellously mixed, Connection exquisite of distant worlds!... 
