 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
 | Henry Noble Day - 1870 - 380 sider
...praise but not its Author O what a revolution What ought then to occupy us O change O wondrous change How beautiful is all this visible world How glorious in its action and itself Why ought the slave-trade to be abolished because it is incurable injustice how much stronger then... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1872 - 776 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 in its action and itself I But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit Го sink or soar,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 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 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 sider
...thee ; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above, With a pervading vision. — Beautiful! Dow 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 sider
...pervading vision. — Beantiful! How beantiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its aetion and itself— But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns,...half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence make A confliet of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride,... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 sider
...wing, But quickly fall again to sing The same old song amid the grass ! — Goethe's Faust. Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itself! But we, who deem ourselves its sovereigns, — we, Half-dust, half-deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, — with... | |
 | 1877 - 294 sider
...but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above, With a pervading vision. Beantiful ! How beantiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action...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,... | |
 | 1882 - 682 sider
...sind unglückselig veranlagte geschöpfe. Hören wir den dichter weiter durch den mund seines helden: But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half...mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breatbe The breatli of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 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...name ourselves its sovereigns, we. Half dust, half deiSy, alike unfit J Rocking their Alpine brethren ; filling up To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence... | |
 | 1869 - 518 sider
...beautiful and the sublime. The ancient poet might well have exclaimed with the modern : Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itself 1 High though his feelings may have risen, the ancient poet could have contemplated only the outside... | |
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