 The wealthiest man among us is the 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 no more...  Education in Scotland - Page 186by Great Britain. Scottish Education Dept - 1896Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...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...in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expence, This is idolatry; and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely... | |
 | 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
...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, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...glittericp brook In the open snmminc, or we are nnblril: The wealthiest man among us is the br»l: No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, caprarr. This is idolatry ; and these we adorr : Plain living and high thinking: are no tut*' 382 383... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 708 pages
...cook, Or groom ! It'i must run glittering like a brook In il'.r open tunsJtine, m toe art unbtett ; The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avai ice, expense, ThU is idolatry ; and thpse we adore: Plain living and higli thinking art no more.'... | |
 | 1842 - 574 pages
...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...and these we adore: Plain living and high thinking arc no more : The homely beanty of the good old cause Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And... | |
 | 1842 - 300 pages
...providing such schools of instruction for the ignorant, or houses of refuge for the godly sorrowful. •' The wealthiest man among us is the best ; No 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... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 592 pages
...therefore fioccipauci-nihUi-pili-ßcaied. " We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunbhine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best." Poetry cannot flourish with parsimony — it sickens in the atmosphere of a " shred and candle-end... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...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...best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights ua. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking... | |
 | sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 328 pages
...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 : Jeremy Taylor's, is not less aptly and happily illustrative. He warns us against the hasty rooting... | |
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