...beams of grace and glory. Who can contemplate so mysterious a process of the mind, without exclaiming, How poor, how rich, how abject, how august. How complicate,...man ! How passing wonder He, who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! It is impossible to dwell on the manner of Cowper's death,...

...beams of grace and glory. Who can contemplate so mysterious a process of the mind, without exclaiming, How poor, how rich, how abject, how august. How complicate,...wonderful is man ! How passing wonder He, who made him snch ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes ! It is impossible to dwell on the manner of Cowper's...

...precious to give stability, and life and eternal' duration to the fabric of his everlasting love. Oh ! How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,—- How complicate, how wonderful, is Man ! Distinguish M link in being's endless chum ! Midway from nothing to the Deity ! A beam etherial sully...

...precious to give stability, and life and eternal duration to the fabric of his everlasting love. Oh I How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, — How complicate, how wonderful, is Mao ! Distinguish"<! link in being's endless chain ! Midway from nothingto the Deity ! A beam etherial...

...Whole pages may be described as an expansion of those vigorous lines in Young's Night Thoughts : — "How poor, how rich, — how abject, how august,— How complicate, how wonderful, is Man!" Pascal puts this paradox in the figure of a self-conscious and sentient reed, — a figure which, after...

...pessimistic and exuberantly optimistic; he preaches the nothingness of man, and elevates him to the stars:" How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite! A worm! a god!" For some inexplicable reason both Young's contemporaries...

...innumerable passages that appeal to the heart as well as to the intellect. I may select the following : How poor, how rich, how abject, how august. How complicate,...man ! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centred in one make such strong extremes ! From different natures marvellously mixt. Connexion exquisite...

...constitution! I could not refrain from adopting the language of Doctor Young, and exclaiming in parody, How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful are Britons! How passing wonder they who made them such, Who center 'd in their make such strange extremes...

...innumerable passages that appeal to the heart as well as to the intellect. I may select the following : How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate,...man ! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centred in one make such strong extremes ! From different natures marvellously mixt, Connexion exquisite...

...listening ear an object finds; Creation sleeps. And having set the scene he proceeds with his meditations: How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young's vocabulary, while consistently dignified, is not Miltonic or pseudo-Miltonic. Though a rhetorical...