Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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... "
Biographia Borealis: Or, Lives of Distinguished Northerns - Page 270
by Hartley Coleridge - 1833 - 732 pages
Full view - About this book

British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Selections from Wordsworth ...

Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1904 - 942 pages
...craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we arc sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him...father's eyes ! See, at his feet, some little plan or cha ex|>ense, This is idolatry : and these WP adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely...
Full view - About this book

The Expositor's Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

James Moffatt - Bible - 1913 - 252 pages
...his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past." — GOLDSMITH. " The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delight us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore." — WORDSWORTH. PBOV....
Full view - About this book

Wordsworth: Poems in Two Volumes, 1807

William Wordsworth - 1914 - 536 pages
...Life is only drest For shew ; mean handywork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must 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...
Full view - About this book

The Golden Treasury, Book 4

Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1914 - 256 pages
...being, as I am, opprest To think that now our life is only drest Or groom! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest;...among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or hi book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore: /'Plain living...
Full view - About this book

The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning: Ed., with Introduction ...

Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...life is only drest For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering ess; — * ? On the withering canse Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. LONDON,...
Full view - About this book

English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson

Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 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...
Full view - About this book

The Patriotic Poetry of William Wordsworth: A Selection

William Wordsworth - Patriotic poetry, English - 1915 - 152 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 ;...
Full view - About this book

English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson

Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 858 pages
...cook, Or groom! — We must run glittering like a brook s In the open sunshine, or we are unbleet: ill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;...grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold: Numb w 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our...
Full view - About this book

English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement

George Benjamin Woods - LITERARY COLLECTIONS - 1916 - 1604 pages
...life is only drest For show ; mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, 5 Or groom!— We must run glittering know it not. 1 Wordsworth's sister Dorothy. •On...EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC' 1802 1807 Once did 10 This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely...
Full view - About this book

The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 2

American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...is only dressed For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom! — We must run glittering d, Thy most pointed pleasure take, And stab my spirit...Thou, before that spirit die, A piercing pain, a arc no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF