| Frederick Henry Sykes - 1895 - 690 pages
...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... | |
| Kenyon West - Poets laureate - 1895 - 588 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 best : No grandeur now, in nature or in book, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, Plain living and high... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1897 - 288 pages
...Life is only drest For shew ; mean handywork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We mast run glittering like a Brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest...in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expence, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely... | |
| Literature - 1908 - 860 pages
...with high thinking. How many of us know the context of that familiar phrase? 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 - 1897 - 284 pages
...gold. Cf. Written in London, Sept. 1802, 1 : " The wealthiest man among us is the best," and 9-11 : " Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these...adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more. " And " The world is too much with us," 2, 4. Also Tennyson, Maud, Part I. i. 6 : " Why do they prate... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1897 - 654 pages
...the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man a/nong us is the best : No grandeur now ir/ nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, 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 ;... | |
| William Wordsworth - Poetry - 1898 - 152 pages
...cook, Or groom! — We must run glittering like a brook 5 In the open sunshine, or we are unblessed : 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 ; our... | |
| W. H. Venable, LL. D. - 1898 - 152 pages
...Or groom! — We must run glittering like a bjrook In the open sunshine, or we are unblessed: I'vX The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book p Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: £^, 10 Plain living... | |
| University of Toronto - 1900 - 1164 pages
...beautifully steep In his first splendour valley, rock, or hill ; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep. (c) The wealthiest man among us is the best. No grandeur...adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more. (d) Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away. (e) The leaves of memory seemed... | |
| 1901 - 526 pages
...well founded. If this were truth in the morning of the nineteenth century : We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest...avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore, what could Wordsworth write at the sunrise of the twentieth? Could there even be opportunity for solicitude?... | |
| |