 | George Thompson, William Lloyd Garrison - Slavery - 1836 - 202 pages
...precious to give stability, and life and eternal duration to the fabric of his everlasting love. Oh I How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, — How complicate, how wonderful, is Mao ! Distinguish"<! link in being's endless chain ! Midway from nothingto the Deity ! A beam etherial... | |
 | Edward Young - Didactic poetry, English - 1837 - 556 pages
...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,...make such strange extremes! From different natures marvelously mixt, Connexion exquisite of distant worlds! Distinguish'd link in being's endless chain!... | |
 | 1837 - 860 pages
...capacities and predestined associations. Man, then, is a being of extremes, as nobly sings the poet, — *' How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man ! How pairing wonder HE who made him such ! \Vho centered in our make such strange extremes ! From dilferent... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1833 - 594 pages
...accelerate this grand consummation of our destiny. 4 Young's impressive lines have this allusion : — ' 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... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - Commonplace-books - 1838 - 388 pages
...How centred in his make, such strange extremes, Of different natures marvellously mix'd : Connexion exquisite of distant worlds, Distinguish'd link in...being's endless chain, Midway from nothing to the Deity ; An heir of glory, a frail child of dust ! Helpless, immortal, insect, infinite ! A worm, a god !... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1839 - 416 pages
...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 - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1838 - 540 pages
...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... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...nation is awful by its wisdom, tremendous by its arms, lovely by its intellectual arts. P. Hoare. MAN. . How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...strange extremes ! From different natures, marvellously mixed, Connexion exquisite of different worlds ! Distinguished link in being's endless chain ! Midway... | |
 | American essays - 1883 - 998 pages
...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... | |
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