...Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is Man !' * Happy is He who lives to understand — Not human Nature only, but explores All Natures, — to...

...Predominate ; whose strong effects are such, As he must bear, being powerless to redress : And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! DANIEL.* I HAVE thus endeavored, with an anxiety which may perhaps have misled me into prolixity,...

...expressing by lingual signs, truth in connection with itself. So Daniel says:— " And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ;" This is what poetry does for us in connecting us with and interesting us in truth ; which is a better,...

...attaches him to the eternal and invisible, and bids him feel, with our old Daniel, that — " Unless above himself he can erect himself, How poor a thing is man ! " But mere criticisms on style, however desirable in works on rhetoric, are of little consequence...

...all their power and progress only give new emphasis to the exclamation of the sage poet: " * * Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!" In view of the uncertainty that rested on his prospects, arising from the hostility of both English...

...all-powerful compensation at once for the evils of our condition, and for the hopes we renounce. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man. The difficulties which surround us must become the materials which we use to rise above them. We may not...

...Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, — how poor a thing is man ! " I can stop to notice only one other passage, having a double interest, as expressing his thoughtful...

...too may become beautiful and holy. Or in the quaint words of a writer of olden days, — . " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man 1 " Still farther, it is our duty in this world, full of God's love and majesty, to become nobler and...

...shall we altogether lose the memory of that strange dream of mine. THE SELF-SEEE, CHAPTER I. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man! — WORDSWORTH. HERMAN WALDHOF was indulging in a love-reverie. He sat, leaning his chin upon his hand,...

...would have been too " palpably inapplicable even for his controversial " license. '"And that, unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ; And how turmoiled they are that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence, And...