 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 556 pages
...from nothing to the Deify / A beam ethereal, sully'd and absorpt ! Though sully'd and dishonour'd, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! An heir of glory ! a frail child of du«t ! Ilelplc si immortal ! insect injinile ! A worm ! a god ! — 1 tremble at myself, And intmyself... | |
 | Edward Young - 1813 - 380 pages
...in being's endless chain ! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorb'd ! Though sullied and dishonour' d, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute...! At home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surpris'd, aghast, And wondering at her own : how reason reels ! Oh, what a miracle to man is man,... | |
 | Edward Young - English poetry - 1813 - 324 pages
...ethereal, sullied and absorpt ! Though sullied and dishonour'd, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatuess absolute ! An heir of glory! a frail child of dust!...tremble at myself, And in myself am lost. At home a itraoger, Thought wanders up and down, surpris'd, aghast, And wondering at her own. How reason reels... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1813 - 778 pages
...from nothing to the Deity ! A beam ethereal, sullied, and absorpt ! Though sullied and dishonour'd, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute!...Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm ! — a God !" COMPLAINT, Niglit /. 76. Faulkner's History of Fulham. (Continued from page 243.) OF the late benevolent... | |
 | Charles Fothergill - Philosophy - 1813 - 288 pages
...Midway from nothing to the Deity ! A beam ethereal, snlly'd and absorpt ! Tho' sully "d and dishonour'd, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute...Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! " CHAP. V. Some important Reflexions, arising from a Consideration of the Nature of Animals. On the... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1849 - 494 pages
...Speaking of heaven brings to our mind its destined inhabitant, man. Dr. Young thus describes him : — " An heir of glory! a frail child of dust : Helpless...At home, a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own. How reason reels ! Oh what a miracle to men is man ! Triumphantly... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...of distant worlds ! Distinguished link in being's endless chain ! Midway from nothing to the Deity ! Dim miniature of Greatness absolute ! An heir of glory ! — a frail child of dust ! Oh, what a miracle to man, is Man !" It really does seem strange, and on any grounds of rationality... | |
 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 pages
...from nothing to the Deity ! A beam ethereal, sully'd, and absorpt ! Though sully'd and dishonour'd, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute...! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surpris'd, aghast, And wond'ring at her own. How reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man, Triumphantly... | |
 | Joseph Benson - Christian literature, American - 1817 - 630 pages
...Miihiiiy from nothing to the Deity ! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt, Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine Dim miniature of greatness absolute!...Helpless! Immortal! Insect! Infinite'. A Worm ! A God ! But how much more applicable is the greater part of this description to the God Man Christ Jesus,... | |
 | England - 1838 - 884 pages
...! An heir of glory 1 a frail child of dust 1 Helpless immortal ! insect infinite 1 A worm ! a god 1 I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost ! At home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own : how reason reels ! Oh, what a miracle to man is man,... | |
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An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm! a god! I tremble at myself, . And in myself am lost ! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own: how reason reels! 
