 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
 | Edward Young - 1844 - 370 pages
...the deity ! A beam ethereal, sullied, and absorpt ! Tho' Bullied, and dishonour'd, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! An heir of glory...Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god \-^-l tremble at myself, And in myself am lost ! at home a stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surpris'd,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...the Deity ! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorbed ! Though sullied and dishonored, 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... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 pages
...absorpt* ! Though sullied and dishonored', still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! 25 An heir of glory', a frail child of dust' ! Helpless...lost*. At home a stranger', Thought wanders up' and downv, surprised', aghast', 30 And wondering at her own'. How reasonv reels* ! O what a miracle to... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pages
...Deity*! A beam ethereal', sullied-', and absorptM Though sullied*, and dishonour'd', still divine*? Dim miniature' of greatness absolute*! An heir of glory'!...a god*! — I tremble' at myself, And in myself am lostM at home a stranger', Thought wanders up and down, surprised*, aghast And wondering at her own*:... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 542 pages
...Though sullied and dishonour'd, still divine ! Dim miniature of greatness absolute I An heir of glory I a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal ! insect...god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost" One instance more, and we turn to passages of a different character. " Lorenzo, blnsh at terror for... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 196 pages
...less happy. A beam ethereal, sullied, and absorb'd ! Though sullied and dishonour'd, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute ! An heir of glory...dust ! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! n god ! I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost." One instance more, and we turn to pasages of... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1845 - 606 pages
...[tEsdras II. ch. 7. 46.] his dreams and his doom — in short they have not learned to set in opposition, "An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god !" Poetry, which is the language of nature, uttered with the least reserve or disguise, is full of... | |
 | 1845 - 610 pages
...— How poor, how rich ! how abject, how august ! How complicate, how wonderful is Man ! * * * • * An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust ! Helpless immortal ! Insect infinite ! A worm ! a God ! A TREATISE ON THE USE OF THE SYMPATHETIC NEHVB AND ITS GANGLIONS, WITH THEIR INFLUENCE ON VARIOUS... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 pages
...the Deity! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorbed, 75 Though sullied and dishonored, still divine, Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory,...infinite, A worm, a god ! — I tremble at myself, 80 And in myself am lost, at home a stranger. Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering... | |
 | John Henry Newman, father Julius Joseph Gliebe - 1916 - 108 pages
...the Deity ! A beam ethereal, sullied and absorpt ; Though sullied and dishonored, still divine! Dim miniature of greatness absolute; An heir of glory...Helpless immortal! insect infinite! A worm ! A god ! Night Thoughts. Man. 132. More than the Seraph . . . How beautiful and touching the sympathy of the... | |
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