 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 278 pages
...our life is only drest For show ; mean handwork 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." , Wordsworth was an active patriot ; and he was a genuine, not a demagogic patriot : he was not a flatterer... | |
 | English literature - 1879 - 758 pages
...of craftsman, cook. Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we arc unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best :...adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more.' But of all the circumstances that are tending to cause English life to enter upon a new phase of existence,... | |
 | Club Cameos - 1879 - 410 pages
...life is only dressed 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. Eapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are... | |
 | English literature - 1879 - 778 pages
...life is only dressed For show : mean handiwork 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 u1*, líapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1880 - 738 pages
...mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook / Is/, -j ( In th' open sunshine, or we are unblest : / The wealthiest...avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: *d .Plain living and high thinking arc no more: I fl This magnificent sonnet was a faithful who of... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1880 - 404 pages
...life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsmen, 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: No grandenr now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry : and these... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pages
...is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must rim glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest...no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause ls gone ! our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. XIV. LONDON,... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 560 pages
...life is only drest For show ; mean handiwork of eraftsman, cook Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest...thinking are no more . The homely beauty of the good old eause Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. loNDon,... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood. . e. SWIFT'S Horace. Satire VI. Bk. The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur...This is idolatry: and these we adore: Plain living anil high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our pence, our fearful... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1882 - 422 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. Eapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry : and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are... | |
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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... 
