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" Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery 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... "
Modern Eloquence - Page 1064
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The Excursion, Being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem

William Wordsworth - 1814 - 476 pages
...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 !"* Happy is He who lives to understand ! Not human Nature only, but explores All Natures, — to the...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 8

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 402 pages
...Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being pow'rless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! And how turmoil'd they are that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence ; That...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 14

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1820 - 790 pages
...and exclusive views of God, and of his children ; for, as observed by one of our old poets, " Unlcu above himself he can " Erect himself, how poor a thing is man* !" The British Critic is a highly respectable Work, which does not require our praise, or offer any...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 8

Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...misery Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being pow'rless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! And how turmoil'd they are that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence ; That...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Predominate : whose strong effects are such, As he must bear, being pow'rless to redress: And that P. ! And how turmoil'd they are that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence ; That...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 5

William Wordsworth - 1827 - 456 pages
...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 !" * • Daniel. Happy is He who lives to understand — Not human Nature only, but explores All Natures,...
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The Excursion; a Poem

William Wordsworth - 1836 - 398 pages
...Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that uyiless above himself he can '•/, Erect himself, how poor a thing is Man ! ' * 9 , ,< Happy is he who lives to understand, Not human nature only, but explores All natures,...
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Falconer ...

John Aikin - 1838 - 796 pages
...Predominate : whose strong effects arc such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that d of vulgar joyi : Seamen reluming to !' " Happy is he who lives to understand — Not human nature only, but explores All natures, — to...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 38

1828 - 636 pages
...seem .plainly to have this reference, in which he reminds her how well she understands, — ' that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! And how turmoiled they are that level lie With earth, and cannot lift themselves from thence; That...
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The Excursion: A Poem

William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pages
...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 ! ' * Happy is he who lives to understand, Not human nature only, but explores All natures, — to...
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