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 : 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more... "
The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire;: Being Lives of the Most ... - Page 270
by Hartley Coleridge - 1836 - 732 pages
Full view - About this book

The Torrance-Clendennin Episode and the Melville Letters: On Racing, Hunting ...

Clarence D. Levey - Horsemanship - 1892 - 180 pages
...social barriers. Have we not been reduced to an unenviable social position ? As Wordsworth says : " No grandeur now in nature or in book Delig-hts us....adore. Plain living and high thinking are no more." Has not the modern club tended to invite us to enter upon a new phase of existence ? Twenty years ago...
Full view - About this book

The Laureates of England: Ben Jonson to Alfred Tennyson

Kenyon West - Poets laureate - 1895 - 588 pages
...comfort, being, as I am, opprest To think that now our life is only drest For show : mean handiwork of craftsman, cook. Or groom !—We must run glittering...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...
Full view - About this book

Select Poems of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Campbell Longfellow

Frederick Henry Sykes - 1895 - 690 pages
...comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only 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 man among us is the best: No grandeur now...
Full view - About this book

MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 73

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1896 - 526 pages
...seems to be the bane of modern domestic architecture, — minute, elaborate, heaped-up decoration. " We must run glittering like a brook in the open sunshine or we are unblest." Plain living, so far as the exterior of our houses is concerned, if not high thinking, is no more,...
Full view - About this book

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1896 - 464 pages
...comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only 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 man among us is the best : No grandeur now...
Full view - About this book

Poems in 2 Vols., Reprinted Original Ed. of 1807 Ed. with Note on ..., Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1897 - 288 pages
...think that now our Life is only drest For shew ; mean handywork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We mast run glittering like a Brook In the open sunshine,...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 Living Age, Volume 258

Literature - 1908 - 860 pages
...like plain living, goes 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,...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...
Full view - About this book

Selections from Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1897 - 284 pages
...efforts. Contrast the image in Written in London, September 1802, 5, 6, where " show " is stigmatized : ' We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest." 3-6. altar ...happiness. The Church, the Army, Literature, the Family, and Society have lost what our...
Full view - About this book

Poems

William Wordsworth - 1897 - 654 pages
...comfort, beteg, as I am, oppfest, To think that nowxour life is only drest For show ; mean ha^dy-worK of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook 5 In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man a/nong us is the best : No grandeur now...
Full view - About this book

SELECTIONS FROM THE POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

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...
Full view - About this book




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