 An heir of glory! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm ! a god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost ! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own: how reason reels!  Poétique anglaise - Page 354by Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...distant worlds ! Distinguished link in being's endless chain ! Midway from nothing to the Deity ! Dim miniature of Greatness absolute ! An heir of glory ! — a frail child of dust ! Oh, what a miracle to man, is Man !" It really does seem strange, and on any grounds of rationality... | |
 | Edward Young - 1815 - 332 pages
...Deity ! A beam ethereal, sully'd, and absorpt ! Though sully'd and dishonour'd, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! An heir of glory...! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surpris'd, aghast, And wond'ring at her own. How reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man, Triumphantly... | |
 | Edward Young - 1816 - 390 pages
...Deity .' A beam ethereal, sully'd and absorpt ! Though sully'd, and dishonourM, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! An heir of glory...! At home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, supris'd, aghast, And wond'ring at her own : how reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man, Triumphantly... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1817 - 630 pages
...the Deity ! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt, Though sullied and dishonoured, still divine Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory...Helpless! Immortal! Insect! Infinite'. A Worm ! A God ! But how much more applicable is the greater part of this description to the God Man Christ Jesus,... | |
 | 1838 - 882 pages
...! An heir of glory 1 a frail child of dust 1 Helpless immortal ! insect infinite 1 A worm ! a god 1 I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost ! At home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own : how reason reels ! Oh, what a miracle to man is man,... | |
 | 1818 - 726 pages
...absorpt! Though sullied and dishonour'd, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! AiTheir of glory ! a frail child of dust ! Helpless immortal! insect infinite ! A worm! a God)" The noble passage is thus not unsuccessfully modernized, we think, in the work before us : " Turn inward... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...! A beam ethereal', sullied', and absorpt' ! Though sullied', and dishonoured', still divine' \ Dim miniature' of greatness absolute' ! An heir of glory'...at home a stranger', ' Thought wanders up and down, surprised', aghast', And wond'ring at her own' : how reason reels' ! O what a miracle to man' is mnn',... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 500 pages
...Deity ! A beam ethereal, sullied, and absorp'd! ' t Though sullied and dishonour'd, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! • An heir of glory...! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surpris'd, aghast, And wondering at her own: How reason reels! O what a miracle to man is man, Triumphantly... | |
 | 1851 - 432 pages
...Meddwl a tby warchen yn cymdeithasu ! " An heir of glory, » frail child of dust, Helpless, hn mortal, insect, infinite, A worm, a god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost." Dyma arglwydd y corff ; y mae fei ager yn ei yru yn mlaen, ас yn ei gynhyrfu i weithredu. Ond er... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...Deity ! A beam ethereal, sullied, and absorpt ! Though sullied and dishonour'd, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! • An heir of glory...! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own : How reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man, Triumphantly... | |
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