| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 800 pages
...follow thce ; but thine Yet pieces downward, onward, or above, With a pervading vision. — Beautiful ! ! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar,... | |
| Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 518 pages
...of the unworthy takes — When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? 2. 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 —... | |
| Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1857 - 494 pages
...follow thee ; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward or above With a pervading vision. 5. 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,... | |
| Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...were better for the world That the world had never been. 5875 CG Leland : The World and the World. 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,... | |
| James Bowling Mozley - Theology - 1883 - 320 pages
...see not — which throb through The immedicable soul, with heart-aches ever new. " l Again : — " 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,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 300 pages
...follow thee j but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above, With a pervading 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,... | |
| English poetry - 1885 - 686 pages
...follow thee ; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above, With a pervading 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,... | |
| Sarah Warner Brooks - English poetry - 1890 - 520 pages
...follow thee ; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above, With a pervading vision. — Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itself 1 But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar,... | |
| 1892 - 216 pages
...work of love and joy — All but the outcast man — We sadly recognize the truth of Byron's words : How beautiful is all this visible world, How glorious in its action and itself : But we, who name ourselves its sovereign, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar,... | |
| Julia Thomas, Annie Gregory Thomas - Physical education and training - 1892 - 290 pages
...have that within which passeth show ; These but the trappings and the suits of woe. 5. 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,... | |
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