 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 Seiten
...dread! Alternately transported and alarm'd! What can preserre my life, or what destroy ? An angel's hand can't snatch me from the grave, Legions of angels can't confine me there. DIGNITY 0V MAN. Akcnside. SAY, why was man so eminently rais'd Amid the vast creation; why ordain'd,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...worm ! a God ! Young's Night Thoughts, n. 1. O what a miracle to man is man, Triumphantly distressed ! what joy ! what dread ! Alternately transported, and...grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there. Ibid. All promise is poor dilatory man, And that thro' ev'ry stage : when young, indeed, In full content,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1826 - 318 Seiten
...surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own. How Reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man! 85 Triumphantly distress'd ! what joy ! what dread !...grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there. 90 'Tis past conjecture ; all things rise in proof: While o'er my limbs Sleep's soft dominion spreads,... | |
 | Edward Young - 1826 - 284 Seiten
...is man! 85 Triumphantly dittress'd ! what joy ! what dread! Alternately transported and alarm 'd ; What can preserve my life ! or what destroy . An angel's arm can't snatch me from tho grave ; Legions of angels can't confine mo there. 90 'Tis past conjecture ; all things rise in... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 Seiten
...down, surpris'd, aghast, And wondering at her own. How reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man 1 Triumphantly distress'd! what joy ! what dread ! Alternately...grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there. FOLLY OF HUMAN PURSUITS. BLEST be that hand divine, which gently laid My heart at rest beneath this... | |
 | 1828 - 398 Seiten
...aghast. And wond'ring at her own ; how reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man ! Trinmphantly distress'd, what joy, what dread! Alternately transported...grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there. A HYMN TO CHRIST JESUS, THE ETERNAL LIFE. WHERE shall the tribes of Adam find The sovereign good to... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 Seiten
...have fall'n Each in his field of glory ; one in arms, And one in council. Cowper : Task, Book I. LIFE. What can preserve my life, or what destroy? An angel's...the grave; Legions of angels can't confine me there. Young. " Many, many are the ups and downs of life, and fortune must be uncommonly gracious to that... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 Seiten
...at her own. How reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man ! Trinmphantly distress'd ! what joy I what dread ! Alternately transported and alarm'd !...snatch me from the grave ; Legions of angels can't confme me there. REASON AND THE PASSIONS. EDMESTON. FORMED in pure celestial fashion From a piece of... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 Seiten
...man is man ! Trinmphantly distress'd ! what joy ! what dread ! Alternately transported and alarnVd ! What can preserve my life, or what destroy ! An angel's arm can't suateh me from the grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there. REASON AND THE PASSIONS. • l... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surpris'd aghast, And wondering at her own. How reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distress'd...grave ; Legions of angels can't confine me there. 'Tis past conjecture ; all things rise in proof. While o'er my limbs Sleep's soft dominion spread,... | |
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A worm ! a God ! — I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost. At home -a, stranger, Thought wanders up and down, surprised, aghast, And wondering at her own. How Reason reels ! O what a miracle to man is man ! Triumphantly distress'd ! what joy! 
