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" O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For 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 sunshine, or we are unblest... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 4
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Poems,: In Two Volumes,

William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 pages
...opprest, To think that now our Life is only drest For shew ; mean handywork 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,...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...think that now our Life is only drest For shew ; 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,...
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Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ...

William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...think that now our Life is only drest For shew ; 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,...
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The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...think that now our Life is only drest For shew ; 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,...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William Wordsworth - 1827 - 482 pages
...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 sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

Theology - 1836 - 698 pages
...opprest To think that now our life is drest 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 ; Tho wealthiest man among us is the best : \" grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapino,...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 38-39

1828 - 592 pages
...poet has some reason when he says that ' expense' is become an ' idolatry' among us. . ' We must ruo glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we...Judaeus!) of the gigantic emperor.' However, be the skull.whose it may, he found strongly marked and ample, in its upper region, what are called by phrenologists...
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The Sonnets of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...that now our life is only drest September 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 DOW in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 39

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1829 - 552 pages
...extremity ; but assuredly it is one that ough not to be wholly neglected. We fear the poet has some reasoi when he says that ' expense' is become an ' idolatry'...found strongly marked and ample, in its upper region, whal are called by phrenologists the organs of self-will and veneration. We have a higher opinion of...
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The Young Man's Closet Library: With an Introductory Essay

Robert Philip - Christian life - 1836 - 686 pages
...No c« ever tried to believe the Gospel, in vain. No. V. OH MANLY DEVOTEDNESS TO THE DIVINE GLCiT " We must run glittering like a brook in the open sunshine, Or we are unblest." THIS is emphatically true of all minds, and of great minds. Great objects are necessary for tbta. For...
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