 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 636 pages
...plainly to have this reference, in which he reminds her how well she understands, — ' that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! And how turmoiled they are that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence ; That... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1814 - 476 pages
...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 the... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 402 pages
...Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being pow'rless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! And how turmoil'd they are that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence ; That... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being pow'rless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! And how turmoil'd they are that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence ; That... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Predominate : whose strong effects are such, As he must bear, being pow'rless to redress: And that unless pply'd thy ! And how turmoil'd they are that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence ; That... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 456 pages
...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. Happy is He who lives to understand — Not human Nature only, but explores All Natures,... | |
 | Amos Bronson Alcott - 1837 - 304 pages
...Imaginative Faculty, and the Senses. MR. ALCOTT. Conscience is a sense of the Holy, the Perfect. " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man." Can you tell me, what this means? CHARLES and GEORGE. It means that unless he can get above the Body,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pages
...Predominate : whose strong effects arc such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless lgar joyi : Seamen reluming to !' " Happy is he who lives to understand — Not human nature only, but explores All natures, — to... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1842 - 412 pages
...exclusive views of God, and of his children: for, as observed by one of our old poets, —" Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing...the church and of her ministers. It has sometimes shown a little sourness in its controversial discussions—but this is very different, indeed, from... | |
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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... 
