 | Sermons, American - 1889 - 690 pages
...the potency, the promise, in himself of becoming that. As the old poet Daniel has said, — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " Or as Tennyson has said, this time in regard to prayer, but that kind of prayer the heart of which... | |
 | William Torrey Harris - Social sciences - 1879 - 28 pages
...Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being helpless to redress ; And that, unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " It is evident that there is a hierarchy among human institutions, and that the lower ones exist... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 pages
...catholic and universal ends. A puny creature walled in on every side, as Daniel wrote, — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " but when his will leans on a principle, when he is the vehicle of ideas, he borrows their omnipotence.... | |
 | Joseph Grinnell Dalton - Bicycles - 1880 - 132 pages
...That hath a wheel ? Up let him hie, And clambering fly, And change his dole for jollity. UNLESS hereby above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! * Lancos pedes. 5 8 THE WHEEL-SHOP. ROTA ANGLICA. BY MR. JINGLEBOSOM. O WHEEL of wire, misjudged... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...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 t* " Happy is he who lives to understand — Not human nature only, but explores All natures, — to... | |
 | English periodicals - 1888 - 1008 pages
...unable — honestly unable — to use the old religious symbols. Yet they feel acutely ' that unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man.' They suffer from what George Sand called ' the remorse of religion and the recklessness of thinking.'... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1979 - 434 pages
...Cf. Samuel Daniel's Epistle "To the Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumberland," lines 98 and 99: "unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!" The passage was a favorite with Coleridge, who had quoted it twice in Aids to Reflection (Complete Works,... | |
 | Cleanth Brooks - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 518 pages
...the lines translated from Seneca that Wordsworth chose to insert in his Excursion, 39 And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is Man! B could well serve as an epigraph to Light in August or Absalom, Absalom! But we need not be much puzzled... | |
 | Howard Brotz - Social Science - 2011 - 641 pages
...is higher than himself. Unless this is done, climate, color, race, will avail nothing. " — unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!" For my own part, I believe that the brilliant world of the tropics, with its marvels of nature, must... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him. "Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!" Newspaper editors argue also that it is a proof of his insanity that he thought he was appointed to... | |
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Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery 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... 
