 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 354 pages
...myself — The last infirmity of evil. Ay, Thou winged and cloud-cleaving minister, \_An eagle passes. How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious...make |A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our mortality predominates,... | |
 | Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...cannot follow thee ; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above With a pervading vision. — Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world...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,... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...cannot follow thee ; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward or above 22 With a pervading vision. — Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world!...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,... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 pages
...risible world ! How glorious in ¡te action and itself; But we, who name ourselves its sovereign», we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or...essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will Till our mortality predominates,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...cannot follow thee; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above, With a pervading vision. — Beautiful! How beautiful is all this visible world...itself! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, w, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its... | |
 | 510 pages
...blue mountains—the sparkling sea in the horizon—t fresh breeze playing on our heated cheek— " Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world, How glorious in its action and itself." Shall we describe that home? No, we hate descriptions, and have no doubt that the reader, like ourselves,... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - 874 pages
...from his own pen may filly conclude this notice :— Beautiful ! How beantifhl Is all this risible om the opposite windows, which folding together, were united into one great flame throughout breath of degradation and of pride. Contending with low wants and lulty will Till our mortality predominates,... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - American literature - 1839 - 276 pages
...of distant ages, only the sons of learning have the power of bestowing. Johnson. LORDS OF THE EARTH! Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world...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,... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1844 - 516 pages
...mountains — the sparkling sea in the horizon — the fresh breeze playing on our heated cheek — " Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world, How glorious in its action and itself." (How poetic that " drop of the cratur" has made us to be sure !) In short, who could not be happy while... | |
 | Eben Norton Horsford - Phrenology - 1839 - 414 pages
...practicable, should be adapted to the peculiar dispositions of the pupil. XI. PERFECTIVENES8, OR IDEALITY. Beautiful! How beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in its action and itself! — Byron. When this organ was first discovered, it was called the organ of Poetry, because it was... | |
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Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our mortality predominates, And men are —... 
