...power, the potency, the promise, in himself of becoming that. As the old poet Daniel has said, — " Unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man ! " Or as Tennyson has said, this time in regard to prayer, but that kind of prayer the heart of which...

...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 t* " Happy is he who lives to understand — Not human nature only, but explores All natures, — to...

...work for catholic and universal ends. A puny creature walled in on every side, as Daniel 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 omnipotence....

...value to ourselves. Life is poor enough if we never rise above selfish motives and actions. " Except above himself he can erect himself, How poor a thing is man." And it is amid these associations that our natures rise to higher planes and we appreciate the worth...

...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...