...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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 ! DANIEL.* I HAVE thus endeavored, with an anxiety which may perhaps have misled me into prolixity,...