...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...

...newly found intelligence in the impassioned cry of Carlyle: " Whence — and Oh Heavens, whither!" " How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man!" It is labor, development, training, careful, patient, painful, diligent toil that must span the gulf...

...in one line, of Pascal's notion of human beings as midway between nothing and the infinite): (472) How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man? . . . From diff'rent natures marvellously mixt, Midway from nothing to the deity! . . . Though sully'd...

...newly found intelligence in the impassioned cry of Carlyle:2 "Whence — and Oh Heavens, whither!" How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man! It is labor, development, training, careful, patient, painful, diligent toil that must span the gulf...

...king — a slave; a worm — a god!15 Young had written in much the same manner on the same theme: How poor, how rich, how abject, how August, How complicate,...wonderful is man! How passing wonder HE who made him such! Who centred in our make such strange extremes? From different natures, marvellously mix'd, Connexion...

...application which we could not devote. As he could not be made to comprehend, by simple demonstration, "How poor! how rich! how abject! how august! How complicate!...wonderful is man! How passing wonder He who made him such!" we therefore deemed it advisable to leave the work of conversion to persons whose spiritual...

..."wrecked desponding thought" (Book I, line 10), only to move promptly to the nature of God and of man ("How poor, how rich, how abject, how August, / How complicate, how wonderful is man!" [1, lines 67-68]). 9 His poem constitutes an extended argument against suicide and an exploration of...