 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 pages
...cannot 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 mid itself! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit MANFRED.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 356 pages
...cannot follow thee ; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above, With a pervading vision. — Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world...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 Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...follow thcc ; but thine Yet pierces downward, onward, or above, With a pervading vision Beautiful I How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious...half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'U essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride,... | |
 | James Willyams Grylls - Hunting - 1848 - 170 pages
...miles away from the mark of human hand, where, perhaps, one can only see in its full force the truth of How beautiful is all this visible world, How glorious in its action and itself, where, a human speck, we stand alone amid the habitations of the hugest and deadliest of the brute... | |
 | Elihu Goodwin Holland - American essays - 1849 - 422 pages
...and the rose are equally needed. Manfred best publishes our creed in his rapturous utterance — " Beautiful ! " " How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itself ! " Beauty, then, in our philosophy, belongs to no one form or law. We cannot wholly refer it to organization.... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...caanot follow thee ; hut 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,... | |
 | Cyrus Augustus Bartol - Christian life - 1850 - 442 pages
...the reality of our experience would be worse even than Byron's gloomy fiction of human nature : — " How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious...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,... | |
 | Cyrus Augustus Bartol - Unitarianism - 1850 - 358 pages
...the reality of our experience would be worse even than Byron's gloomy fiction of human nature : — " How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious...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,... | |
 | Cyrus Augustus Bartol - Christian life - 1850 - 426 pages
...reality of our experience would be worse even than, Byron's gloomy fiction of human nature : — " How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and itself! But we, who name ouiselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 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 dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, witli our mixed essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and... | |
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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 —... 
