Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence, make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our mortality predominates, And men are —... The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 3011817Full view - About this book
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 502 pages
...sepulchre, for I have ceased To justify my deeds unto myself— The last infirmity of evil. Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious...essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The brrath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will Till our mortality predominates,... | |
| 1817 - 708 pages
...follow thee ; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above, With a pervading vision. Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious...half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of prida,... | |
| English literature - 1817 - 670 pages
...pervading vision.— Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world I How glorious in its action nnd itself ! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns,...we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or мог, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation... | |
| English literature - 1817 - 694 pages
...follow thee ; but thine Yet pierces downward, ou ward, or above, With a pervading vision Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itself ! But we, who паше ourselves its sovereigns, •we, Half dost, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with... | |
| H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 492 pages
...beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in it* action and itself; But we, who name ourselves ite sovereigns, we. Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence mnke A conBict of its elements, and breathe Tne breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with... | |
| English literature - 1847 - 524 pages
...a scene — miles and miles away from the mark of human hand, where, perhaps, alone I can truly see How beautiful is all this visible world, How glorious in its action and itself, where, a human speck, we stand alone amid the habitations of the hugest and deadliest of the brute... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1823 - 310 pages
...follow tb.ee ; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above With a pervading vision. — Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious...ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike UHfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 394 pages
...follow thee ; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above With a pervading vision. — Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itseif ! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...follow thee; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above With a pervading vision—Beautiful! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious...half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 340 pages
...down ward, onward, or ahove With a pervading vision. — Beautiful! How heautiful is all this visihle world! How glorious in its action and itself; But...half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our inix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and hreathe The hreath of degradation and of pride,... | |
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