 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 - Side 3011817Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 sider
...follow thcc ; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above, With a pervading vision Beautiful I How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious...half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'U essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride,... | |
 | James Willyams Grylls - 1848 - 170 sider
...miles away from the mark of human hand, where, perhaps, one can only see in its full force the truth of 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... | |
 | Elihu Goodwin Holland - 1849 - 422 sider
...are equally needed. Manfred best publishes our creed in his rapturous utterance — " Beautiful ! " " How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itself ! " Beauty, then, in our philosophy, belongs to no one form or law. We cannot wholly refer it to organization.... | |
 | Cyrus Augustus Bartol - 1850 - 358 sider
...the reality of our experience would be worse even than Byron's gloomy fiction of human nature : — " 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 Croly - 1850 - 442 sider
...follow thee ; hut 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,... | |
 | Cyrus Augustus Bartol - 1850 - 442 sider
...the reality of our experience would be worse even than Byron's gloomy fiction of human nature : — " 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,... | |
 | Cyrus Augustus Bartol - 1850 - 426 sider
...reality of our experience would be worse even than, Byron's gloomy fiction of human nature : — " How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itself! But we, who name ouiselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 sider
...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 dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, witli our mixed essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and... | |
 | 1852 - 782 sider
...thee ; but thine eye Yet pierceet downward, onward, or above With a pervading vision.— Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious...Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, wilh our mix'd essence make A conflict of ils elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of... | |
 | 1852 - 782 sider
...action and itself! Half dust, half deity, alike unfit Bui we, who name ourselves ils sovereigns, we, , O Till our mortality predominates, Contending with low wants and lofty will And men are—what they name... | |
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