| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1958 - 196 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... | |
| 1915 - 838 pages
...Wordsworth complained a century ago, false gods have been enthroned in the temple of the human spirit. The wealthiest man among us is the best; No grandeur...avarice, expense, — This is idolatry, and these voe adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more. So Wordsworth wrote then; and we must remember,... | |
| William M. Armstrong - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1978 - 328 pages
...unpublished doggerel conveys as succinctly as all his editorials what he meant to say to his generation: Rapine, avarice, expense This is idolatry; and these...no more; The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone.16 In the Nation Godkin set about to emulate the best features of the Saturday Review and the... | |
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