 | John Dennis - 1883 - 426 páginas
...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,...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws." This mood is not lasting, for hope and faith inspire the patriot and the poet. So he is ashamed of... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 430 páginas
...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,...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws." This mood is not lasting, for hope and faith inspire the patriot and the poet So he is ashamed of his... | |
 | john swann withington and r. abercrombie - 1883 - 814 páginas
...*or<dity. "Why are we so touched with the poet's sorrow, expressed so wonderfully in his sonnet ? " Plain living and high thinking are no more; The homely...cause Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pore religion breathing household laws." Why are those lines instinct with the spirit of the nineteenth... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1958 - 196 páginas
...5 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, This is idolatry; and these we adore: 10 Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our... | |
 | 1915 - 838 páginas
...enthroned in the temple of the human spirit. 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 voe adore: Plain living and high thinking are no more. So Wordsworth wrote then; and we must remember,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 páginas
...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,...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.' — p. 131. Again in the sonnet at page 138, riches are denounced for the fears which they generate.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1916 - 674 páginas
...to England's faults, about which his Sonnets use harder words than they ever use about her enemy : ' Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.' Yet, in spite of all, ' It is not to be thought of that the flood Of British freedom, which to the... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 362 páginas
...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,...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. Equally fine is the sonnet written in the same year to Milton, and those which follow calling on his... | |
 | 1928 - 980 páginas
...personal and social life, whose loss from English society Wordsworth so poignantly deplored in 1802 : Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely...innocence. And pure religion breathing household laws. This conservation can only be effectively achieved in one waythrough our religion. This is the Modernist's... | |
 | 1871 - 614 páginas
...:— " The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur, nor in nature or in book Delights ua. Rapine, Avarice, Expense, This is idolatry, and these...innocence And pure religion breathing household laws." HAIN FRISWELL. CARVED MISERERE SEATS (4 tb S. viii. 205, 2.10, 272.)—The design of a fox preaching... | |
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Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. 
