 How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, 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 on the bounties of an hour ? How poor,...  The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts - Страница 211написао/ла Edward Young - 1802Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 страница
...I low much is to 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,... | |
 | 1840 - 1122 страница
...strange extremes " of humanity, than in the beautifully concise, yet expressive, lines of Young ? " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful ii man! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1824 - 312 страница
...with unlimited freedom wherever the light of science or the enterprize of thought can penetrate: — " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august ; How complicate, how wonderful is man I" Night Thoughts, The whale, however, is a fellow-creature with which I can sympathize little more... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 816 страница
...meekness was so much extolled by a certain popular orator, we cannot help exclaiming, with the poetHow poor ! how rich ! how abject ! how august ! How complicate ! how wonderful is man ! Dim miniature of pp-eatness absolute ! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! Fertile... | |
 | 1825 - 788 страница
...meekness was so much extolled by a certain popular orator, we cannot help exclaiming, with the poetHow poor ! how rich ! how abject ! how august ! How complicate ! how wonderful is man ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! Fertile... | |
 | Edward Young - 1826 - 284 страница
...life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss. A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! 65 And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the...complicate, how wonderful, is man ! How passing wonder Ilo who made him such! 70 Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! From different natures marvellously... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 страница
...alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss, A dread eternity, — 6 how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour ? 7 How poor, 8 how rich, 9 how abject, I0 how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man ! II How... | |
 | 1826 - 488 страница
...of human intelligence is altogether impassable by them, justifying the exclamation of the poet ; — How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is Man ! Section 5. ON THE PHYSICAL POWERS OF MAN. In form erect, and mien majestic, MAN , His lordly stamp... | |
 | John Ryland - 1828 - 534 страница
...COR. vi. 13. Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged. " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man ! " When we consider the vast extent of the universe, and the limited period of our existence, how... | |
 | William Holland Wilmer - 1829 - 258 страница
...Genesis vi. 5. Eccles. ix. 3. Job xiv. 1. 4. Romans Hi- W33. li. Psalm. Fccles. vii. 10. Isaiah i. 6. "How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, "How complicate, how wonderful is man." Generosity, gratitude, fidelity, and the exercise of many high and heroic virtues between man and man;... | |
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