 | John Dennis - English literature - 1876 - 466 pages
...expression to a like feeling. After saying that our life is only dressed for show, he adds : " . . . . We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine,...No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Eapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1877 - 478 pages
...craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In th' open sunshine, or we are unbl^st : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in Nature or iu book Delights us. Eapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 246 pages
...comfort, being, as I am, opprest To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handwork of craftsman, cook. Or groom ! We must run glittering...No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us." Wordsworth was an active patriot ; and he was a genuine, not a demagogic patriot : he was not a flatterer... | |
 | Club Cameos - 1879 - 410 pages
...very enviable condition described by Wordsworth : ' Our life is only dressed For show : mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering...No grandeur now, in nature or in book, Delights us. Eapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are... | |
 | English literature - 1879 - 778 pages
...very enviable condition described by Wordsworth : ' Our life is only dressed For show : mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering...best: No grandeur now, in nature or in book, Delights u1*, líapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking... | |
 | English literature - 1879 - 758 pages
...very enviable condition described by Wordsworth : ' Our life is only dressed For show : mean handiwork of craftsman, cook. Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we arc unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now, in nature or in book, Delights... | |
 | Robert Philip - 1879 - 362 pages
...No one ever tried to believe the Gospel in vain. CHAPTER IX. MANLY ESTIMATES OF SELF-CONSECRATION. 'We must run, glittering like a brook in the open sunshine, Or we are unblest. ' jjHIS is emphatically true of all minds, and especially of great minds. Great objects are necessary... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1880 - 404 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...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... | |
 | Walter Senior - Sermons, English - 1880 - 388 pages
...handmaiden to wealth. As Wordsworth says: Wordsworth. " All our life is dressed For show, mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ; we must run glittering like a brook In th' open sunshine, or we are unblest." So it comes about that culture is divorced from morals, or put... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1880 - 738 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 / Is/, -j ( In th' open sunshine, or we are unblest : / The wealthiest man among us is the best : }... | |
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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... 
