...the potency, the promise, in himself of becoming that. As the old poet Daniel has said, — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " Or as Tennyson has said, this time in regard to prayer, but that kind of prayer the heart of which...

...Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being helpless to redress ; And that, unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " It is evident that there is a hierarchy among human institutions, and that the lower ones exist...

...catholic and universal ends. A puny creature walled in on every side, as Daniel wrote, — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " but when his will leans on a principle, when he is the vehicle of ideas, he borrows their omnipotence....

...That hath a wheel ? Up let him hie, And clambering fly, And change his dole for jollity. UNLESS hereby above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! * Lancos pedes. 5 8 THE WHEEL-SHOP. ROTA ANGLICA. BY MR. JINGLEBOSOM. O WHEEL of wire, misjudged...

...Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man t* " Happy is he who lives to understand — Not human nature only, but explores All natures, — to...

...unable — honestly unable — to use the old religious symbols. Yet they feel acutely ' that unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man.' They suffer from what George Sand called ' the remorse of religion and the recklessness of thinking.'...

...Cf. Samuel Daniel's Epistle "To the Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumberland," lines 98 and 99: "unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!" The passage was a favorite with Coleridge, who had quoted it twice in Aids to Reflection (Complete Works,...

...the lines translated from Seneca that Wordsworth chose to insert in his Excursion, 39 And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is Man! B could well serve as an epigraph to Light in August or Absalom, Absalom! But we need not be much puzzled...

...is higher than himself. Unless this is done, climate, color, race, will avail nothing. " — unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!" For my own part, I believe that the brilliant world of the tropics, with its marvels of nature, must...

...is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him. "Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!" Newspaper editors argue also that it is a proof of his insanity that he thought he was appointed to...