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" The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : xo Plain living and high thinking are no more... "
Biographia Borealis: Or, Lives of Distinguished Northerns - Page 270
by Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 732 pages
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Poems,: In Two Volumes,

William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...Life is only drest For shew ; mean handywork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a Brook In the open sunshine, 'or we are unblest:...in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expence, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

Theology - 1836 - 698 pages
...poet. He may not be; but when Wordsworth does not find admirers, then will it indeed be true, that " Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old enuse IB gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household lawi." AKT....
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The Sonnets of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...only drest September For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest...wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur DOW in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore...
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The British poets of the nineteenth century, including the select works of ...

British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...glittericp brook In the open snmminc, or we are nnblril: The wealthiest man among us is the br»l: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, caprarr. This is idolatry ; and these we adorr : Plain living and high thinking: are no tut*' 382 383...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

Theology - 1836 - 708 pages
...cook, Or groom ! It'i must run glittering like a brook In il'.r open tunsJtine, m toe art unbtett ; The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avai ice, expense, ThU is idolatry ; and thpse we adore: Plain living and higli thinking art no more.'...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1832 - 402 pages
...is only drest For show; mean handy- work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a Brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the beat: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry;...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 69

1842 - 574 pages
...life is only drest For show ; mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ? — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest:...and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking arc no more : The homely beanty of the good old cause Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And...
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The Englishman's Magazine, Volume 2, Issues 13-14

1842 - 300 pages
...providing such schools of instruction for the ignorant, or houses of refuge for the godly sorrowful. •' The wealthiest man among us is the best ; No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us — repose, avarice, expense, This is the idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking...
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The City of London Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1 - Volume 2, Issue 9

English literature - 1843 - 592 pages
...therefore fioccipauci-nihUi-pili-ßcaied. " We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunbhine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best." Poetry cannot flourish with parsimony — it sickens in the atmosphere of a " shred and candle-end...
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The Christian Parlor Magazine: 1844-1845, Volume 1

American literature - 1844 - 504 pages
...wounded heart. In seeking to console others, he found consolation for himself. " We must run glittering, like a brook, in the open sunshine, Or we are unblest." The second foreign tour of the philanthropist proved fatal to his life. But death was by no means an unexpected...
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