 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 6edited by - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Frederick William Robertson - Literature - 1858 - 376 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." The... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1858 - 584 pages
...think that nowour life is only drest ' For show ; mean handiwork 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,... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...To think that now our life is only dress'd For show ; mean handiwork 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,... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - English essays - 1859 - 370 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." The connection... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...only drest For comfort, being, as I am, opprest For show ; mean handiwork 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,... | |
 | 1863 - 624 pages
...opprest To think that now our life is only drest For show, mean handiwork 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,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 406 pages
...self-sacrifice : — "Now our life is only drest For show, — mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest." Our times are times of self-assertion and self-vindication : men push their own claims, vaunt their... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Biography & Autobiography - 1864 - 426 pages
...self-sacrifice :— "Now cur life is only drest For show,—mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest." Our times are times of self-assertion and self-vindication : men push their own claims, vaunt their... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1865 - 316 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,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 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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