 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 680 sider
...and fastidious in all his works — he more than realizes a gloomy poet's description of man : — 41 How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful!" We need scarcely recommend a smill and cheap volume, which give« a faithful picture of this extraordinary... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 274 sider
...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,...extremes ! From different natures marvellously mix'd, Connexion exquisite of distant worlds ! Distinguish'd link in being's endless chain ! Midway from nothing... | |
 | 1822 - 336 sider
...emblem of human things, all of which, like man himself, have two totally different points of view, * How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...extremes ! From different natures marvellously mix'd, Connexion exquisite of distant worlds '. Distinguish'd link in being's endless chain, Midway from nothing... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 sider
...eternity! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to mo, 1'i.ni pensioner on the bounties of an hour? How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...such! Who centred in our make such strange extremes I From different natures marvellously mix'd, Connexion exquisite of distant worlds ! Distinguish'd... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 sider
...spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear — whatever is, is right. MAM. Young How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...wonderful is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such t Who center'd in his make such strange extremes } From different natures marvellously mixt; Connexion... | |
 | 1840 - 1122 sider
...strange extremes " of humanity, than in the beautifully concise, yet expressive, lines of Young ? " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful ii man! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1823 - 586 sider
...— •• How poor, how rich— how abject, how augustHow complicate, how wonderful is man ! Ho« passing wonder HE who made him such !— Who centred in our make men strange extremes. From different natures marvellously mix'd ! Connexion exquisite of different... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 sider
...taken, know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 10. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...Who centred in our make such strange extremes \ From diff'rent natures marvellously mixt, Connexion exquisite of distant worlds ! Distinguisht link in being's... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1824 - 312 sider
...with unlimited freedom wherever the light of science or the enterprize of thought can penetrate: — " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august ; How complicate, how wonderful is man I" Night Thoughts, The whale, however, is a fellow-creature with which I can sympathize little more... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 816 sider
...meekness was so much extolled by a certain popular orator, we cannot help exclaiming, with the poetHow poor ! how rich ! how abject ! how august ! How complicate ! how wonderful is man ! Dim miniature of pp-eatness absolute ! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! Fertile... | |
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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... 
