...altogether too rich for such poor acting. I am hardly worthy to be a suburban dweller outside those walls. "Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!"27 With our music we would fain challenge transiently another and finer sort of intercourse than...

...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 ! DANHD.* I HAVE thus endeavored, with an anxiety which may perhaps have misled me into prolixity,...

...must work for catholic and universal ends. A puny creature walled in on every side, as Donne 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 onmipotence....

...body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit? "Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!"6 I cuddle up by my stove, and there I get up another fire which warms fire itself. Life is so...

...Excursion, especially in book 4. Interestingly, Emerson andThoreau both quote a couplet of Seneca: "Unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man." Emerson cites the couplet, in 1862, to illustrate how "puny" one is unless one becomes "a vehicle of...