 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 N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 sider
...downward, onward, or ahove, With a pervading vision. — Beautiful ! How heautiful is all this visihle world ! How glorious in its action and itself ! But...mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and hreathe The hreath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 sider
...follow thee ; but Yet pierceth 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 - 1880 - 582 sider
...onward, or above, With a pervading vision. — Beautiful! How beautiful is all this visible world 1 How glorious in its action and itself— But we, who...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 Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 1376 sider
...follow thee; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above, With a pervading vision. — Beautiful ! antom : I should know it 'midst All that the dead dare gloomily raise up From their black gulf 40 To sink or soar, with our mixed essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath... | |
 | Sir Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham - 1907 - 458 sider
...off my shoes the dust of this disgusting place. I think it is Byron who, somewhere, exclaims : — How beautiful is all this visible world, How glorious in its action and in itself. He had not been to Benares and beheld man, the finest work of the Almighty, reduced to beast's... | |
 | 1909 - 444 sider
...trotz aller eingebildeten Überlegenheit der Natur gegenüber einnimmt : Manfred. . . . " Beautifid .' How beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in its action and itself! But we, who name mtrsekes its sovercigns, we, • •.umstires, ll -T 753. Außer diesen gemeinsamen Zügen, welche... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 sider
...follow the* ; but thine Yet pieroesdownward.onward.orabove. With ;» pervading vision. — Beautiful ! 끡 ~ } { x g ( ι = ] + 7 O? ; }c纽. <e cN> » ho name ourselves its sovereicr.s, we. Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To ssnk or soar, wish... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 sider
...were better for the world That the world had never been. 5875 CG Leland : The World and the World. Haw beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious...ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike until To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe • The... | |
 | Samuel Claggett Chew - 1915 - 206 sider
...that that "visible world," "so glorious in its action and itself," is in splendid contrast to man — "We, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we Half dust,...half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence make A conflict of its elements." (I, ii, 39 f.) Study of Byron's plays has shown, I... | |
 | Richard Wilde Micou - 1916 - 528 sider
...the woes we see not — which throb through An immedicable soul, with heart-aches ever new."20 And: " How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious...itself! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, . . . with our mix'd essence, make A conflict of its elements . . . Till our mortality predominates,... | |
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