 | William Wordsworth - 1870 - 390 pages
...think that now our life is only drest Tor show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom!—We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine,...best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights iis. Kapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - Bible - 1870 - 860 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 In the open snnshinc, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the b«st: No grandeur now In nature or... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1871 - 642 pages
...sunshine, or we are unhlest : The wealthiest man among us is the hest: No grandeur now in nature or in hook Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry...living and high thinking are no more : The homely heauty of the good old cause Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion hreathing... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drcst For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are tmblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us.... | |
 | Plymouth athenaeum - 1874 - 622 pages
...comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drcst For show ; mean handywork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering...sunshine, or we are unblest ; The wealthiest man among ua is the nest : No grandeur now in Nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1874 - 396 pages
...as I am, opprest, To think that now our 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 nublest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us.... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - Literary Criticism - 1875 - 374 pages
...as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsmen, cook, Or groom !—We must run glittering like a brook...Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry : aud these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1875 - 728 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 In th' open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1876 - 628 pages
...year, expressing a profound regret to think ' that now our life is only drest for show ; mean handywork of craftsman, cook, or groom : ' " We must run glittering...adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more." Five years after that was written, the most fervent and keenly appreciative of Wordsworth's admirers... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - Criticism - 1876 - 368 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...No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us." The connection of these two things is what I wish to fasten your attention upon — "The wealthiest... | |
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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... 
