 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
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 268 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,... | |
 | James Stark - 1890 - 200 pages
...die." " 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." — WORDSWORTH.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1890 - 100 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,... | |
 | Hiram Corson - English language - 1892 - 248 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,... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1893 - 546 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,... | |
 | Kenyon West - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 614 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,... | |
 | Kenyon West - Poets laureate - 1895 - 588 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, This is idolatry... | |
 | Oswald Crawfurd - 1896 - 494 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,... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - English literature - 1896 - 538 pages
...the bane of modern domestic architecture, — minute, elaborate, heaped-up decoration. " We must run glittering like a brook in the open sunshine or we are unblest." Plain living, so far as the exterior of our houses is concerned, if not high thinking, is no more,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 648 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,... | |
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