 Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...  The North American Review - Sayfa 505editör: - 1865Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1842 - 412 sayfa
...harsh and exclusive views of God, and of his children: for, as observed by one of our old poets, —" Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!*" The British Critic is a highly respectable work, which does not require our praise, or offer any marks... | |
 | 1844 - 450 sayfa
...sentiment of religion in the heart. We appreciate the meaning of that elder poet,* when he said that " unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " Religion has been defined by a late writerf to be " a sense of want." The definition is far from... | |
 | 1844 - 452 sayfa
...sentiment of religion in the heart. We appreciate the meaning of that elder poet,* when he said that " unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man !" Religion has been defined by a late writerf to be " a sense of want." The definition is far from... | |
 | 1845 - 572 sayfa
...defective when weighed in the balance of one of the most thoughtful of our early poets, Daniel — ' Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man !' Self-inclusion and self-dependance we regard as constituting the original error of Artevelde's nature,... | |
 | 1845 - 506 sayfa
...enslave that nation whose watchword was, "Liberty!" It is well said, by the poet Wordsworth : — " That, unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! " CHAPTER III. THE CONSULATE. AD 1799—1804. THE first step of the consulate was to instal themselves... | |
 | Joseph Bullar - 1850 - 164 sayfa
...steps to that temple. But there is no life in the picture ; no power to produce the effects pourtrayed. Unless above himself he can erect himself, How poor a thing is man, the philosopher acknowledges. But there is no more power in his words to enable the man to erect himself... | |
 | 1851 - 632 sayfa
...words of a time-honored bard, so fondly quoted by a later poet of nature, amid Scotia's hills, '• Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " Having allowed the fancy to speculate a little upon these tendencies of our nature, the dark and... | |
 | John Aikin - 1852 - 792 sayfa
...Predominate : whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that !' " Happy is he who lives to understand — Not human nature only, but explores All natures, — to... | |
 | William Mountford - 1852 - 542 sayfa
...What are those lines, uncle, that you quoted last night ? MARHAM. They are Samuel Daniel's : — That unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! And so he is. AUBIN. Something like that couplet is what Coleridge has written in his biography,... | |
 | Edward Higginson - 1853 - 548 sayfa
..."What are those lines, uncle, that you quoted last night ? * " M. They are Samuel Daniel's : ' That unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is Man !' And so ho is. " A. Something like that couplet is what Coleridge has written in his hiography, that... | |
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