...VVhy if it prosper, none dare call it treason.' Epigrams. Book iv. Ep. 5. SAMUEL DANIEL. 1562-1619. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! To the Countess of Cumberland. Stanza 12. MICHAEL DRAYTON. 1563-1631. For that fine madness still...

...Predominate : whose strong effects are such, As he must bear, being powerless to redress: And that nnless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man. WILLIAM BIRD. [1540-1613.] VVM ! N : • TO ME A KINGDOM IS. Mr mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect...

...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. WILLIAM BIRD. [1540-1623.l MY MIND TO MB A KINGDOM IS. MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy...

...spirit steered hy enlightened Faith — Not stone-hlind Bigotry which makes God a myth. In truth, " unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " l 1 The last couplet is taken from Daniel. And the prophet is right — it helps to explain, if...

...Predominate : whose utrong effects are such Ac he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that nson !' " Happy is he who lives to understand — Not human nature only, but explores All natures, — to...

..... 343-372 373-3S8 i UNIVKRSITY OF OALII'XMNIA. • CHARACTER. CHAPTER I. INFLUENCE OF CHARACTER. * Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man !" — Daniel. "Character Is moral order seen through the medium of an individual uatnro ... , / Wf...

...world kin." This "touch" he never knew, and as the old Somersetshire poet, Samuel Daniel, said — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man." The productions of his later years were unworthy the author of Vathek. The exquisite sentiment from...

...And thus we realize the truth of those lines of Daniel which Coleridge was so fond of quoting : — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " Individual man is weak, ignorant, liable to deceive and be deceived. But the human nature of which...

...And thus we realize the truth of those lines of Daniel which Coleridge was so fond of quoting: — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " Individual man is weak, ignorant, liable to deceive and be deceived. But the human nature of which...

...all temptations to intellectual pride, feeling that to him also were applicable Daniel's lines — Unless, above himself, he can Erect himself— how poor a thing is man ! And, therefore, deciding that, even for a Shakspere, there is and can be nothing better than to pass...