 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1817 - 98 pages
...name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe...themselves, And trust not to each other. Hark ! the note, [TTie Shepherd's pipe in the distance is heard. The natural music of the mountain reed — For here... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 694 pages
...unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The bread) of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants...themselves, And trust not to each other. Hark ! the note, [ Th?. ¡hcpliwd'f pipe in Mi1 distance is heard. Tlie natural music of the mountain reed— . For... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 502 pages
...unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The brrath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants...what they name not to themselves, And trust not to «ach other. Hark ! the note, [The Shepherd's pipe in the distance is heard.] The natural music of... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 670 pages
...ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or мог, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe...degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and loftj wilt Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to themselves. And trust... | |
 | 1817 - 708 pages
...ourselves its sovereigns, we, • .• Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of prida, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our mortality predominates, And men are— what... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - American literature - 1817 - 492 pages
...its elements, and breathe Tne breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lolly will Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to thenv selves, And trust not to each other. Hark .' the note, [The X/tcpherd"i pipe in the diilanee... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1819 - 88 pages
...name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe...themselves, And trust not to each other. Hark ! the note, i For here the patriarchal days are not A pastoral fable — pipes in the liberal air, Mix'd with the... | |
 | Innes Hoole - 1821 - 628 pages
...raised abandon me, The spells that I have studied baffle me." And yet they will not despair; but when " The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will," makes their " mortality again predominate," will again enter the lists, go through the same manoeuvres,... | |
 | 1822 - 240 pages
...name ourselves its sovereigns, we Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe...predominates ; And men are — what they name not to themselve-, And trust not to each other." " And is this the jargon," answered Mr. Evelyn, " by which... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1823 - 310 pages
...name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike UHfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe...And trust not to each other. Hark ! the note, [The Shepherd 's pipe m the distance is Jteard. The natural music of the mountain reed — For here the... | |
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How glorious in its action and itself ! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending... 
