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... Macmillan's Magazine - الصفحة 2081866عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| James Burton (schoolmaster.) - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 124
...not, for the conjunctions you find in them — I fear not wave iv>r wind. Take heed lest you fall. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man. Not a minute stopped or stayed he. His cheeks were not wrinkled, nor dimmed his eagle eye. Not in sheet... | |
| Where, Who - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 186
...and Bononomi. NEASY lies the head that wears a crown. SHAKSPEAEE, K.Henry 17. pt. ii. act iii. sc. 1. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! S. DANIEL, To the Cowntess of Cumberland. True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.... | |
| William Torrey Harris - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 28
...Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being helpless to redress ; And that, unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " It is evident that there is a hierarchy among human institutions, and that the lower ones exist... | |
| 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 690
...power, the potency, the promise, in himself of becoming that. As the old poet Daniel has said, — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " Or as Tennyson has said, this time in regard to prayer, but that kind of prayer the heart of which... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...RELATIONS Cf. Samuel Daniel's Epistle "To the Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumberland," lines 98 and 99: "unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!" The passage was a favorite with Coleridge, who had quoted it twice in Aids to Reflection (Complete... | |
| Cleanth Brooks - 1989 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...But the lines translated from Seneca that Wordsworth chose to insert in his Excursion, 39 And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is Man! B could well serve as an epigraph to Light in August or Absalom, Absalom! But we need not be much puzzled... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...dreaded. He is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him. "Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!" Newspaper editors argue also that it is a proof of his insanity that he thought he was appointed to... | |
| Howard Brotz - 2011 - عدد الصفحات: 641
...which is higher than himself. Unless this is done, climate, color, race, will avail nothing. " — unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!" For my own part, I believe that the brilliant world of the tropics, with its marvels of nature, must... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 220
...dreaded. He is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! Newspaper editors argue also that it is a proof of his insanity that he thought he was appointed to... | |
| Mary White Ovington - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 188
...grown familiar with years before. But instead, on one of these walls, in a neat handwriting, I read: "Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man." And below: "No conflict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself. But in this we must continually... | |
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