 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...  Works - Page 362by Edward FitzGerald - 1887Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1879 - 778 pages
...wealthiest man among us is the best: No grandeur now, in nature or in book, Delights u1*, líapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we...adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more. ' But of all the circumstances that are tending to cause English life to enter upon a new phase of... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1880 - 404 pages
...as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsmen, cook, Or groom !—We must run glittering like a brook...Plain living and high thinking are no more: The homely beanty of the good old canse Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing... | |
 | David M. Main - Sonnets, English - 1880 - 490 pages
...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,...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. ccx LONDON, i8oa. TV /T ILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : •*•*•*• England hath... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...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,...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. ccx LONDON, 1802. T\>T ILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee :... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 pages
...like a 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,...fearful innocence And pure religion breathing household law^ LONDON, 1802. MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee ; she... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1880 - 390 pages
...The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Kapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry : and these we...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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English poetry - 1880 - 738 pages
...In th' 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: *d .Plain living and high thinking arc no more: I fl This magnificent sonnet was a faithful who of... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...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,...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. ccx y LONDON, 180S. A TV/TILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 308 pages
...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,...innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. LONDON, 1802. ]TLTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1881 - 732 pages
...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,...no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause ls gone ! our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. XIV. LONDON,... | |
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