...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...

...men, and not to go on and drink for ourselves from the same living well-heads from which they drank 1 Not now, any more than in past ages, can the most...humanity— ' Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how mean a thing is man !' I cannot close without expressing a feeling which I daresay has been present...

...not, for the conjunctions you find in them — I fear not wave iv>r wind. Take heed lest you fall. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man. Not a minute stopped or stayed he. His cheeks were not wrinkled, nor dimmed his eagle eye. Not in sheet...

...and Bononomi. NEASY lies the head that wears a crown. SHAKSPEAEE, K.Henry 17. pt. ii. act iii. sc. 1. Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! S. DANIEL, To the Cowntess of Cumberland. True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun....

...RELATIONS 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...

...But 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...

...which 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...

...dreaded. He 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...

...dreaded. He 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...

...grown familiar with years before. But instead, on one of these walls, in a neat handwriting, I read: "Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man." And below: "No conflict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself. But in this we must continually...