 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 London Quarterly Review - Page 61828Full view - About this book
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1878 - 278 pages
...that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handwork 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." , Wordsworth... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1879 - 362 pages
...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,... | |
 | Club Cameos - 1879 - 410 pages
...Wordsworth : ' 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. Eapine,... | |
 | Robert Philip - 1879 - 362 pages
...tried to believe the Gospel in vain. CHAPTER IX. MANLY ESTIMATES OF SELF-CONSECRATION. 'We must run, glittering like a brook in the open sunshine, Or we are unblest. ' jjHIS is emphatically true of all minds, and especially of great minds. Great objects are necessary... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 pages
...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1879 - 778 pages
...Wordsworth : ' 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 u1*, líapine,... | |
 | David M. Main - Sonnets, English - 1880 - 490 pages
...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,... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1880 - 404 pages
...now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsmen, 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 grandenr now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine,... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 506 pages
...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,... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pages
...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,... | |
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