 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 502 pages
...evil. Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in its action and itself; But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust,...essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The brrath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will Till our mortality predominates,... | |
 | 1817 - 708 pages
...vision. Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itself ! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, • .•...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 prida,... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 492 pages
...beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in it* action and itself; But we, who name ourselves ite sovereigns, we. Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence mnke A conBict of its elements, and breathe Tne breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 670 pages
...vision.— Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world I How glorious in its action nnd itself ! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or мог, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...vision.—Beautiful! How beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in its action and itself! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust,...lofty will Till our mortality predominates, And men are—what they name not to themselves, And trust not to each other. Hark! the note, \The Shepherds... | |
 | Innes Hoole - 1821 - 628 pages
...raised abandon me, The spells that I have studied baffle me." And yet they will not despair; but when " The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will," makes their " mortality again predominate," will again enter the lists, go through the same manoeuvres,... | |
 | 1822 - 240 pages
...• beautiful ! How beautiful is all the visible world ! How glorious in it» action and itself! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we Half dust,...predominates ; And men are — what they name not to themselve-, And trust not to each other." " And is this the jargon," answered Mr. Evelyn, " by which... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1823 - 310 pages
...— Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itself; But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike UHfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...vision—Beautiful! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itself! But 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, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 340 pages
...— Beautiful! How heautiful is all this visihle world! How glorious in its action and itself; But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust,...half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our inix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and hreathe The hreath of degradation and of pride,... | |
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