| William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...is only dreet 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...best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights ua. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking... | |
| sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 328 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 : The wealthiest man among us is the best : Jeremy Taylor's, is not less aptly and happily illustrative. He warns us against the hasty rooting... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1851 - 750 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...no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause JM gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, 1 pore religion breathing household laws. ' XIV. LONDON,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering r creed ; Withal a season dangerous and wild, A time...compose A chaplet in contempt of his grey locks. 4 nnd these we adore: Plain living arid high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old... | |
| Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1852 - 408 pages
...drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest...best. No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights ns. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking... | |
| Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1852 - 408 pages
...craftsman, cook, Or groom ! "We must run glittering like a brook In open sunshine, or we are uublest : The wealthiest man among us is the best. No grandeur now in na'ure or in book Delights us. Kapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain... | |
| Electronic journals - 1853 - 706 pages
...sequestration." The following lines are quoted by Mr. Teale in his Life of Viscount Falkland, p. 131. : " 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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...Foe show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, <>r groom! — We must run glittering like a Brook ID the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest...in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This B idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of... | |
| John Davy - Fishing - 1857 - 372 pages
...drest For show : mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : Iťo grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ;... | |
| Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 384 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...No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us." The connection of these two things is what I wish to fasten your attention upon — " The wealthiest... | |
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