 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
 | George Stillman Hillard - United States - 1865 - 416 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... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1870 - 796 pages
...To think that now our life is only dreat 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. Bapine,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1870 - 390 pages
...think that now our life is only drest Tor 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 iis. Kapine,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1871 - 622 pages
...To think that now 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 are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now, in Nature or in book, Delights us. Rapine,... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1871 - 338 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,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1872 - 826 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, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best ; No grandeur now in Nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
 | John Dennis - Sonnets, English - 1873 - 280 pages
...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,... | |
 | Plymouth athenaeum - 1874 - 622 pages
...opprest, To think that now our life is only drcst For show ; 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 ua is the nest : No grandeur now in Nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
 | Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 pages
...To think that now 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 are unblest: The wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
 | T. LINDSEY ASPLAND - 1874 - 492 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,... | |
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