 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...done ! my hopes and fears' Start up alarm'd', and o'er life's narrow verge Look down' — On what' ? a fathomless abyss' ; A dread eternity'. How surely...mine' ! And can eternity belong to me', Poor pensioner OH the bounties of an hour'? 5 ^,. • BLANK VERSE. , .551 How poor', how rich', how abject', how august',... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...life's narrow verge Look down — On what? a fathomless abyss; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! > How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder he who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From different natures marvellously mix'd, Connection exquisite... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...done? My hopes and fears i Start up alarm' d, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what! a fathomless abyss; A dread eternity ! how surely mine...man ! How passing wonder He, who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes! , , From different natures marvellously mixt, • .:•... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what ? — A fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine...to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour. Night 2. WHAT if (since daring on so nice a theme) I show thee friendship delicate, as dear, Of tender... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1854 - 580 pages
...assertion too little positive, for a proverb, properly so called ; as, for instance, his exclamation, — " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man ! " and this, — " An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave ; Legions of angels can't confine... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 680 pages
...and fastidious in all his works — he more than realizes a gloomy poet's description of man : — 41 How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful!" We need scarcely recommend a smill and cheap volume, which give« a faithful picture of this extraordinary... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what 1 A fathomless abyss. A dread eternity ! how surely mine...man ! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From different natures marvellously mix'd, Connexion exquisite... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1822 - 336 pages
...emblem of human things, all of which, like man himself, have two totally different points of view, * How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...man ! How passing wonder He who made him such, Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From different natures marvellously mix'd, Connexion exquisite... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear — whatever is, is right. MAM. Young How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...wonderful is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such t Who center'd in his make such strange extremes } From different natures marvellously mixt; Connexion... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...be done ! My hopes and fears Start up ularm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Ix>ok down—on what? A fathomless abyss. A dread eternity! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to mo, 1'i.ni pensioner on the bounties of an hour? How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,... | |
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! 
