 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
 | Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1852 - 408 pages
...No grandeur now in na'ure or in book Delights us. Kapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cauee Is gone, — our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure Religion breathing household laws." Seldom... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1853 - 706 pages
...grandeur now in Nature or in book Delights us — repose, avarice, expense, This is the idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are...homely beauty of The Good Old Cause Is gone : our peace and fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws." Whence did Mr. Teale get these... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 776 pages
...: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This B idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are...no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause 1» gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pare religion breathing household laws, f XIV. LONDON,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 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." Thus in brief, although in a chapter longest of any in the book, have we attempted... | |
 | John Davy - Fishing - 1857 - 372 pages
...I»o 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." AMICUS. And, I would repeat to you, were I not sure that you know it, the sonnet that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 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. LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 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. I.OSDOV, 1802. MlLTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1858 - 584 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." Finally, we believe that there is no sin or folly, no depth of servility, baseness,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 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. tONDOS, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of thee... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...No grandenr 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. \'xrv. LONDON 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need... | |
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