 | Literature - 1877 - 430 pages
...craftsman, cook. Or groom!— We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are nnblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : 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 man... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - American poetry - 1921 - 450 pages
...is only dressed 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:...avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone, —... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - English poetry - 1923 - 864 pages
...drest For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom!— We must run glittering like a brook 5 In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest...avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...life 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:...is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book London, l802 Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - English literature - 1923 - 456 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: Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1924 - 774 pages
...cook, Or groom \ — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest ; 6 The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur...avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone ;... | |
 | Arthur Stephen Hoyt - English poetry - 1924 - 314 pages
...increase of wealth and vulgar display. The conceptions of life were materialized. We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest — The wealthiest man among us is the best He lived at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The factory system drew men from quiet, rural... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - English poetry - 1928 - 582 pages
...is only drest VFor show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook,'' Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest:...avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plainjiving and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause >.' j Is gone;... | |
 | Norman Foerster - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 306 pages
...Romantic enthusiasm, romantic idealism, the romantic sense of 'the dignity of man' have faded away. The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur...adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more. So might a Wordsworth sing if living at this hour. Or so a Whitman: 0 I could sing such grandeurs and... | |
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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... 
