 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 mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The...  Happiness: A Tale, for the Grave and the Gay - Sida 721822Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1817 - 670 sidor
...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,...degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and loftj wilt Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to themselves. And trust... | |
 | 1817 - 708 sidor
...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 prida, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our mortality predominates, And men are— what... | |
 | Innes Hoole - 1821 - 628 sidor
...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,... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 sidor
...conclude this notice : — Beautiful ; How beautiful is all this risible world ! How tin rions in its nce upon nights so sweet such awful moru could rise...haste : the steed, The mustering squadron, and the ]>ridc, Contending with low wants and lofty will Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what... | |
 | William Hone - 1868 - 846 sidor
...! How glorious in its action and itself; Bat we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dost, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our...of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will Tul our mortality predominates, And men are — «bat they name not to themselves, And traft not to... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 892 sidor
...name ourselves its bovereigus, »e, Half dust, half deity, alike unot To sink or snar, with our mixM essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe...degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and loity will Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to themselvce, And trust... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 sidor
...itself! But we, «ho name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half duet, half deity, alike unfit Tu 'ink «т soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its...and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, I "'lending with Tow wants and lofty will TNI our mortality predominates, Ы men are — what they... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 sidor
...unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of il- elements, and breathe The linMtli not of them. Though human, thon didst not deceive me, Though woman, thou I'ur mortality predominate*, And men are — what they name not to themselves. And trust not to each... | |
 | William Hone - 1830 - 878 sidor
...conclude this notice : — Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this risible world ! How glorious in its action and itself ; But we, who name ourselves its...elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of j>ride, Contending with low wants and lofty will Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what... | |
 | 1835 - 932 sidor
...vision. — Beautiful ! How beautiful is all this visible world ! How glorious in its action and ilself; But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half...breath of degradation and of pride. Contending with Tow wants and lolly will Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to themselves,... | |
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