..." These two were not unhappy, for they feared God, and loved one another. THE SELF-SEER. CHAPTER I. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! — WORDSWORTH. HERMAN WALDHOF was indulging in a love-reverie. He sat, leaning his chin upon his...

...misery Predominate: whose strBng effects are such As he must bear, being j^Gwerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man." his country's name, Her equal rights, her churches and her schools— What have they done for him?"...

...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." • his country's name, Her equal rights, her churches and her schoolsWhat have they done for him?"...

..."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...

...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 !' * Happy is He who lives to understand — Not human Nature only, but explores All Natures, — to...

...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,...

...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 !" It was the middle of July, and the limetrees were in blossom. — All along that glorious avenue...

...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,...

...a mind, expressing by lingual signs, truth in connection with itself. So Daniel says:— " And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ;" This is what poetry does for us in connecting us with and interesting us in truth ; which is a better,...

...brutes, attaches him to the eternal and invisible, and bids him feel, with our old Daniel, that — " Unless above himself he can erect himself, How poor a thing is man !" But mere criticisms on style, however desirable in works on rhetoric, are of little consequence...