 For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom! —We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense,...  The China magazine: a ... miscellany - Page 321868Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expence, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are...our fearful innocence. And pure religion breathing household laws. 139 14. LONDON, 1802. Milton ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are...our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. p 2 sii XIV. LONDON, MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour ; .England hath... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are...our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.. XIV. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are...our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. VOL. III. L XIV. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are...our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. XIV. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 698 pages
...poet. He may not be; but when Wordsworth does not find admirers, then will it indeed be true, that " Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old enuse IB gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household lawi." AKT.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...No grandeur DOW in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are...our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. London, 1802 MILTON ! thou should' st be living at this hour : England hath need of... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Biography - 1833 - 764 pages
...best. No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry, and these we adore. Plain living and high thinking are...good old cause Is gone, — our peace, our fearful inuocence, And pure Religion, breathing household laws." Seldom has the same fecling, which is expressed... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1836 - 774 pages
...best No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry, and these we adore. Plain living and high thinking are...our fearful innocence, And pure Religion, breathing household laws." Seldom has the same feeling, which is expressed so often, been expressed so beautifully;... | |
 | Thomas Kerchever Arnold - 1837 - 256 pages
...and Saviour Jesus Christ. From your faithful and afflicted W. JONES. Plain living and high thinhing are no more ; The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone;—our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure Religion, breathing household laws. WORDSWORTH.... | |
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