 | George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 406 pages
...self-renunciation and self-sacrifice : — "Now our life is only drest For show, — mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering...a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest." Our times are times of self-assertion and self-vindication : men push their own claims, vaunt their... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 426 pages
...of self-renunciation and self-sacrifice :— "Now cur life is only drest For show,—mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom! We must run glittering...a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest." Our times are times of self-assertion and self-vindication : men push their own claims, vaunt their... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - United States - 1865 - 416 pages
...self-renunciation and self-sacrifice : — "Now our life is only drest For show, — mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering...a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest." Our times are times of self-assertion and self-vindication : men push their own claims, vaunt their... | |
 | 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 - 508 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...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 - 932 pages
...comfort, being, as I am, opprest To think that now our life is only drcst For 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... | |
 | 1868 - 484 pages
...comfort, being, as I am, opprest To think that now our life is only clrest For show ; mean handiwork of 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 now in nature or in book Delights us.... | |
 | English poetry - 1869 - 436 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...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
...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...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
...comfort, being, as I am, opprest To think that now our life is only dreat For show ¡ mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering...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... | |
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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 : 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more... 
