| Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...as I am, opprest For show ; mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom !—We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest;...adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more : CCXIII THE SAME Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...dressed For show ; mean handiwork of craftsman, cook. Or groom ! We must run glittering like a bro. In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandenr now, in Nature or in book, Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these... | |
| Charles Knight - Booksellers and bookselling - 1865 - 360 pages
...trading morality of England. There are too many whose respectability is based upon the worship of " Rapine, avarice, expense — This is idolatry ; and...Plain living, and high thinking, are no more." The prevalence of these "• middle class " examples has had no inconsiderable share in producing profligate... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1866 - 512 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...is the best : No grandeur now in Nature or in book Del:ghts us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1866 - 930 pages
...show ; mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the opon sunshine, or we are unblest ; The wealthiest man among us is the best ; No grandeur now in nature or in hook Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore ; Plain living and... | |
| 1868 - 484 pages
...craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are nnldest ; The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur...Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry, auJ these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old... | |
| English poetry - 1869 - 436 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;...or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, Tliis is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty... | |
| English poetry - 1869 - 444 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 : To grandeur now in Nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and... | |
| Marlborough coll - 1870 - 796 pages
...life is only dreat For show ¡ mean handiwork 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. Bapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1870 - 390 pages
...life is only drest Tor 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 iis. Kapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking... | |
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